Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0aa63afb22f026b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Authoring application: ImageMagick
MD5: 4ab7bbe3b023c305bf107eccb0c9f6a3 SHA-1: 297feb2206006295a1d2e28c32eb92b1f1747534 SHA-256: d0aa63afb22f026b709923e1449d78127a092ded588d3375e44d28b6b37f7c23
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, identified as a PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. This suggests the document is likely used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content via a link farm. The ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0 further supports a phishing or malicious traffic generation intent. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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://thejoyofsyntax.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589049/vigirenakaru.pdf
    • http://bethevibration.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130436145/8292be.pdf
    • http://mespinozamen.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639882/lofilusuguginib-vifotuzazamej-navibi.pdf
    • http://theindoorhockeyleague.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488157/tudurebad.pdf
    • http://scubatribemaldives.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543855/2288208.pdf
    • http://starvedrockrealestate.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738875/8501986.pdf
    • http://closinggoals.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379272/tetubow_neripotadivop.pdf
    • http://stayprotected.org/uploads/1/3/0/2/130287504/6430064.pdf
    • http://michelleshero.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639377/7bf1fb45fb3d.pdf
    • http://ndtasanantonio.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621216/130621216.html#power+season+6+episode+3++toxicwap

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00001259.bin
ac9607265ca5068c9c22ff48ef6e9b6fdba2d7a7a7df475b9e2184d2d8edbcc5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1259 8668 bytes