Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfbb184bf9323d7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Authoring application: Soda PDF
MD5: 207b009224896b205d742f2bc3b373ea SHA-1: d01e996131c09f6f52a7c9b7efc27ebec770a2ed SHA-256: bfbb184bf9323d7af1eafb1217ffd57d989f9b4a4c9365bebcda936f1332d5d9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM rule indicating a mass of external links. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall. The presence of numerous unknown-reputation URLs strongly suggests a phishing or redirection campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Soda PDF' and 'Darrell sheets of storage wars', which may be part of a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://lefkasluxuryvillas.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589144/1614426.pdf
    • http://oasisstyle.co/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590296/d5e8d.pdf
    • http://clumsybutcute.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603682/270973.pdf
    • http://mightyscripture.net/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379634/rikukexobogov.pdf
    • http://theelfbox.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621216/130621216.html#darrell+sheets+of+storage+wars

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00001199.bin
3a33b173a6a15dc3ec8e9f2bdb75ca9384f9459066ee86e2f429cf155ee7704d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1199 8440 bytes