Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9be8e1e9e627c54a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Authoring application: Inkscape First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 159f9baf3ce1acda1ab0970c81cb06e2 SHA-1: f9b7a63323964750c8d2605a56584ae61a9f55fa SHA-256: 9be8e1e9e627c54a3bf2b430802c951121459fca3a78c0767593648aa5f227d6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, disguised as a grammar exercise, leading to other PDF files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise, suggesting a link farm used to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9770

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://sheilastonephotographer.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639051/bamawujonaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://allmytreasures37.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130270887/xamidenajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusikariwemak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323930/jopuloludeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sergiomauricio.ca/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323342/ac0076f505fcdb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pierrecyr.ca/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605194/bugopuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-citymaintenance.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639668/abcebe5f443b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mofflongboards.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775398/130775398.html#assertive+to+exclamatory+sentences+exercises+pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicenseIn PDF document text
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000013b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B0 8480 bytes
SHA-256: 06d059d29e729698b7de3f318cece77f5d184e6e0f01e612d01273b4aae04ef3
font_01_sfnt_off0000a2d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA2D3 2316 bytes
SHA-256: 8da94621ad76b3aa2bde739f7f325d6c97b3a5e88aaf83d2b66a3e98de15a855
font_02_sfnt_off0000ac8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC8A 2732 bytes
SHA-256: 7863b829de04ea8b7f5be4d5dae43fa62182e7611f0c3a300d10b316d27db496
font_03_sfnt_off0000b599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB599 1388 bytes
SHA-256: 1723f1ced37cc89d69e30f3df6281c5e5fb8989544fd4587aa75b00c91af2fd0
font_04_sfnt_off0000bf28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF28 14932 bytes
SHA-256: 45426e5b5dfd3540d87149d888a7a2cc807b0aa34a47813476fc68fc12e57567