Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 929d046157f56c16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Authoring application: Serif PagePlus First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 73aa4bf649c0553eabe33e9a55ade40e SHA-1: 299c9ebc7ff7503f091fbba42e410127ba841228 SHA-256: 929d046157f56c1608d6696e25d51cf181708aef85e804bfad2dd7264995a70f
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV heuristic also flags this as 'Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0', indicating a phishing or traffic redirection intent. The document body contains text related to 'Technically wrong pdf' and includes the primary malicious URL, suggesting a lure to download or view a malicious PDF.

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://nextgentheatreco.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272390/janikoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://simoncollin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639946/zekuxapa_teluge_nasilagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovereignbirth.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776874/1633978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faithandyoga.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379377/dufiginuneminot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://padlog.net/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323154/965963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anniescandy.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130324292/zubori_sezujam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beconfidentstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639221/lefaxowotibeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somersetfoodtrail.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639138/130639138.html#technically+wrong+pdfIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000113f.bin
9fcb0927d8d1651525d7e4293a168d74755878ec291cea488d3397ed68f0da8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F 8472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007792.bin
448c4d4550ed59c7e8e80b6d66b986666620351883d23913e38401b861762e5b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7792 16368 bytes