Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa6513a6fa089d7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.1 KB Authoring application: ImageMagick First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 897b5b4d43ef61f2146168a7ac76e5c7 SHA-1: 4394b44a848da1d9a272489b2a10c0ecfeb1a90b SHA-256: aa6513a6fa089d7bb3e2e4cb30dce2326eaff6a9415609146dfe03bba7f9df47
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external websites, a technique commonly used for SEO poisoning or phishing. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0' further supports a phishing or malicious redirection intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Free portfolio blogger template' which may be a lure to disguise the malicious nature of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://mountainsportandfitness.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740232/rulusodevemapuge.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://syracusechildrenschorus.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379316/rufige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porterforcanton.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588807/4615083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agapeeducationalconsultantsandtrainers.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323425/b1f011878bda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rochecenter.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130312986/130312986.html#free+portfolio+blogger+templateIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000106d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D 8724 bytes
SHA-256: eefd120eb56d96a5b80573e048f70e4ebad32b7817ba2e7e6545720a83854076