Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87386b0d46651304…

MALICIOUS

PDF

28.6 KB Authoring application: PDFedit
MD5: 70299649d1e22c1634960046a5bf4eab SHA-1: 01f498c372f0cd2760f3f58aa70345b04499cb99 SHA-256: 87386b0d46651304e10191596fd93a71573ff085cb22906ddb32bab2cabecfdc
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded external links, a technique commonly used in SEO poisoning and phishing campaigns to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0' further supports a phishing or traffic redirection intent. The document body, though partially corrupted, mentions 'Relative clauses exercises intermediate pdf' and includes URLs that appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting a lure to download further malicious content.

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://newmapsoftheoldwest.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323997/lilowox_pakegebixukob_piwapujo_xuvegaroda.pdf
    • http://jakewilsondesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590122/0e0bf3.pdf
    • http://cristoviene.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550944/5522523.pdf
    • http://desatascosgranollers.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130541065/solasif.pdf
    • http://bestkidsmentoring.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543293/9fdebf7f0666b01.pdf
    • http://lobls.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605389/2647236.pdf
    • http://kitchencocktails.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775634/44cfd47df.pdf
    • http://acause2travel.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775013/a3e5e.pdf
    • http://fashiontrendingstyles.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873983/1929698.pdf
    • http://muddyhoundsgroomingservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130291579/2326757.pdf
    • http://host206.carmichaelnl.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130490665/130490665.html#relative+clauses+exercises+intermediate+pdf

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00001bc4.bin
8bebd426affc4fa5cabaf07590d33fb87aebe9a8f44aa11f87d0bae84d6965f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BC4 6948 bytes