Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be20a270868af3ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Authoring application: GIMP
MD5: 9e54ae2265bd520bcb08438231f632ab SHA-1: bf0bea8e299cdf3600d4c85c7c67248be52684a6 SHA-256: be20a270868af3ec2b03af289a939108cabc30b7cbf55d2a1aac15c32a3102f0
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Link

The sample is a small PDF containing a high density of external links, triggering the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The document body uses a lure related to a summary of the novel 'Uglies' to entice users to click the links. ClamAV has flagged this as Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall, suggesting a phishing campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://rhpcollegecounseling.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272513/jafeladodaxive_zasovisigi_kesixafe_bafamape.pdf
    • http://glamisog.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604770/662069.pdf
    • http://zobeke.gate2019iitm.online/uploads/2020/01/28/vumerusagir.pdf
    • http://redraiderdelivery.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272318/6767390.pdf
    • http://ateenagescrewup.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604696/8397088.pdf
    • http://cruzlaminates.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621871/9ee622.pdf
    • http://mrkdenton.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775743/130775743.html#the+uglies+summary

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00001072.bin
1b863db6330cdbd7f59f03c3ec268af16e611fc61bda4d76af49503eb957fd34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1072 7500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005801.bin
779aa567746046747dac965df7fdfb06ff632674a0a99ce247a327bf89f0fa63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5801 16036 bytes