Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aba46fb2e78a12ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Authoring application: SWFTools First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8053bb18c66125f6d708c2a4b589ad0b SHA-1: ab090bcc1c6fe994429d9fcb265a15787f712de4 SHA-256: aba46fb2e78a12ac01dbe74e339aeb972f29947e3922383d9e33517dd302a5cb
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0'. Static analysis revealed a large number of embedded external links, a common technique for SEO poisoning and phishing lures. The primary host for these links is 'pogopossum.net', which is also listed as the first URL in the document body. No scripts were extracted from this sample, limiting the analysis of its direct execution behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://pogopossum.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539825/tarun.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bajesekas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483863/liwuzomax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zapojoku.sellercentral-amazon-avs.com/uploads/2020/01/28/5761598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodab.plrsecretsclub.com/uploads/2020/01/28/8101839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitasomoma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130541552/55e7bd36a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://butterflykissescrafts.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289359/tadikopodaraf-patopeberat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morris-auto.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313577/kalot-kajabakutodugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yungpop.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313410/jedela_nikebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://researchsurf.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539676/130539676.html#lucedale+ms+stockyard+market+reportIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00001251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1251 9100 bytes
SHA-256: b2c102042af950c210a63dcb6226f4137dd59825ee3048df33f99001b53eaca2
font_01_sfnt_off000055a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55A0 16608 bytes
SHA-256: eed8e1c224acf41171ac3784f4f1364ca82e214efab6eb4e286f8d99b4d700c2