Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97559ba6141cbb18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Authoring application: GIMP
MD5: 657ce9b9cd0d5322cc16b37a2701cba2 SHA-1: 2bede21486f01689706db7afcfa0118bd9bb6079 SHA-256: 97559ba6141cbb1897819db488d2492921d79b27b77bef7c563da495e6d07759
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files, a technique often used for SEO spam or to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0, indicating a phishing or traffic redirection intent. The document body, though partially obfuscated, mentions 'Proper breathing while singing' and includes several of the extracted URLs, suggesting a lure to engage the user before redirecting them.

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://westsydneyparanormal.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435531/bonevemorulenu-sukin-turininenu.pdf
    • http://drbarrnd.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483230/nalufulaxino-titosakexigiv.pdf
    • http://studentsandcollege.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379104/xekonenorepatuf_zakezorejune_magobowuzurefi.pdf
    • https://sogikokix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476721/fuxeninitaxo.pdf
    • http://eudaimoniatravelblog.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738949/802181.pdf
    • http://adams-aardvarks.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605509/kekiva-kekagomepe.pdf
    • http://mikeintucson.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379488/130379488.html#proper+breathing+while+singing

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000116b.bin
be4339f7ffb096c2e8206cd397e50c863824c8d07ec50e97fc7de7917c1f538a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B 8384 bytes