Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 863406ce27625bc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Authoring application: Scribus
MD5: 67984b21de63d16e54763472071abada SHA-1: 8dedd37358b284dd2712901f04112177da11de1c SHA-256: 863406ce27625bc8cb12f11959a4216986ed7bab8e388b3718c388aad7bdec27
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. ClamAV identified this as 'Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0', and an ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains some of these URLs, reinforcing the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0
  • 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://hostmaster.phyllisbeckkatz.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539255/45d179140b.pdf
    • http://mznaturallypatriciallc.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130544746/3684481.pdf
    • http://findthatpartyplanau.net/uploads/1/3/0/2/130287942/wirogadavarosid.pdf
    • http://lets-split.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543985/50c5d8ee.pdf
    • http://nataliegracewagner.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289305/3874697.pdf
    • http://referenceobscura.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774972/743f00ecb51e.pdf
    • http://www.ronballalandscape.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323180/faxoxevotisipuf.pdf
    • http://plexormarketing.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551994/zexal_nusosijunif_gonoxodabi.pdf
    • http://inthehoopembroiderydesigns.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588213/banozono-negefap-bupurusupawu-wujugepusu.pdf
    • http://www.equitab.eu/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551153/fatiwalududis.pdf
    • http://guitarwhisperershop.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589037/jaruganalenopagononu.pdf
    • http://niehusactuary.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621114/ruximaferunulowafiz.pdf
    • http://buswell.ca/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588579/3594053.pdf
    • http://alanmg.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639976/6280380.pdf
    • http://www.sheu.eu/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483494/zavaw_vatip_fakit_govifipeke.pdf
    • http://becauseprosknow.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589145/fewofuxozafo.pdf
    • http://citywidevalet.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130490410/bofotofesalelit.pdf
    • http://bootthemoffline.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590168/vudopupedemabug.pdf
    • http://nomoremessingaround.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621847/kurokese.pdf
    • http://adaassurance.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814124/virakotajagal.pdf
    • http://estudiorins.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604739/2737613.pdf
    • http://solver360.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130287238/2692398.pdf
    • http://midentistadepuebla.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379174/zoxuwazipulibu_kujixetosa.pdf
    • http://ortaklargrup.net/uploads/1/3/0/4/130491075/natima.pdf
    • http://somasoakcanada.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639396/magage-wubajebifut.pdf
    • http://host201.carmichaelnl.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435857/130435857.html#structural+steel+weight+calculation+table

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000107c.bin
444a6ccb06c1b122307130073eb544d5f9a2d30f471ec419264697d3d1d7afd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C 8000 bytes