Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8b198c4ddc23012…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Authoring application: GIMP
MD5: 8a23909c8b86b555c0528c2e204b1842 SHA-1: a5480ec7fafa89d384ef734be2dfaaad8e88cd57 SHA-256: d8b198c4ddc23012475371280e530ce445febb9672fcba271b8627687017e2b4
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which are hosted on unrelated domains and appear to be part of a link farm. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0' strongly suggests a phishing or traffic redirection intent. The embedded URLs are likely used to direct users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

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://advanced-eyegroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130478831/zokasavivukuze.pdf
    • http://mojaveoffroadadventures.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551567/1485692.pdf
    • http://dietcenter.es/uploads/1/3/0/4/130436190/c8f2b.pdf
    • http://qualisplus.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289429/xowagipewiwitafej.pdf
    • http://eventsinmower.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621523/2443420.pdf
    • http://futuretideskona.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130494871/8986713.pdf
    • http://midtownatlantachiropractor.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621422/situzeparusejevumasu.pdf
    • http://blockchainambassador.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776454/130776454.html#california+6th+grade+math+placement+test+practice

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000115c.bin
f797a584704d7e646a98544bf3c99b06a17e10447062638b88fbf1cf07a1fdd0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115C 7920 bytes