Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2840a16fdffa25d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Authoring application: Scribus
MD5: 3a74a9dcf8cc20b356d941bebae7a1b7 SHA-1: cf0f236d90bd57766495afb6bb86f116e54a1ba4 SHA-256: a2840a16fdffa25d1308d7417556125c2b8a2da4340e1d2fc98ea21012fbe298
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. ClamAV identified this as 'Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0', indicating a phishing or traffic redirection purpose. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing text, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious intent related to URL redirection and potential phishing.

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://www.exoticontheruneast.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813427/madide.pdf
    • http://jenna-frye.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775251/66a52.pdf
    • http://thelewisduo.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323930/mefetogosapefu.pdf
    • http://notalright.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739544/papipitu.pdf
    • http://classythemes.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775331/vunowibutipesaxuku.pdf
    • http://myworldinanutshell.online/uploads/1/3/0/4/130436166/e8f233b.pdf
    • http://s2dexpressinc.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551920/zovizolitopaje.pdf
    • http://nailvenue.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775593/07b532a9f.pdf
    • http://fiveandlime.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590092/gagefexo_sitebuj_lixug.pdf
    • http://coopergroupnj.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739341/koselali.pdf
    • http://twwotrainningworldwide.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589010/eef2e4162cef9cd.pdf
    • http://mydigitalvote.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813369/3553335.pdf
    • http://electchestermanagement.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605509/1903073.pdf
    • http://www.huntersgrill10.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775763/xurukeledes.pdf
    • http://okashi.be/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776712/delub.pdf
    • http://stompinelephant.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289733/kiredujefaj.pdf
    • http://nrcm.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604395/8af1451.pdf
    • http://g3kqq2.bdgct.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739564/130739564.html#botw+interactive+korok+seed+map
    • http://twwotrainningworldwid

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00003b14.bin
62003b9ce79aed5aeab057c857de64d418ca84574581d47fbd30e63d5c3237bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3B14 7484 bytes