Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e76fb84ae12d18c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.8 KB Authoring application: Soda PDF First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 21d00b28757b187a0f9b59e180de1374 SHA-1: 020020a6abc16ae1b14e74106798108ea673b49d SHA-256: 7e76fb84ae12d18c38e053b9500051c4c379e7a7107dee34670580a7844b1212
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded external links, identified as a PDF link farm. This technique is often used to manipulate search engine rankings or to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external links suggests a potential for further malicious activity, such as downloading additional payloads or phishing attempts. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0' further supports a phishing or traffic redirection motive.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://newyorkdiamondbling.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488282/4500084.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jitoli.icu/uploads/2020/01/28/206ffa022c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fifthrowcenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483912/3e6f476f09f7f24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myfiestaofeight.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739086/9581d9ceef0f04.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lofudufidimos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488432/3551542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcsomerset.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130287845/6613445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theapplemechanic.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313649/1831775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zubelu.cuelol.info/uploads/2020/01/29/vevigixix_xununowepal_mugeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://san69.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639412/130639412.html#the+second+law+of+thermodynamics+states+that+entropy+tends+to+increase+with+timeIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00001200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1200 8032 bytes
SHA-256: 9b569bf6a2f01541a2dfd151ca186c498dec7ca29c4a5abfdc97da4a7aa81b95