Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 debed5d228aa5d94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.9 KB Authoring application: Scribus
MD5: d3619209d8698cb0b7023571d24f12f6 SHA-1: 26b4a3f6447fd292ca17a3ba32faa66cef0d0591 SHA-256: debed5d228aa5d94fddc7f3a8a775a6164baf547e9b02b1e03cf4a1ef5a7b77c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that point to other PDF documents. This technique is often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content indirectly. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, indicating it's likely a phishing or redirection mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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://jason-miller.net/uploads/1/3/0/3/130324047/f97d00b13b40.pdf
    • http://katrinacjohnsonphd.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379331/3145228.pdf
    • http://lizdemigreen.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483766/zemagudi.pdf
    • http://mwtreks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740514/bosof.pdf
    • http://svetsfiltar.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379912/509432.pdf
    • http://bodyblissdepot.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621220/535635.pdf
    • http://create218.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620343/nuxuwol_japikekivevigis.pdf
    • http://missionexcell.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639061/6f370a31a4ea.pdf
    • http://www.talkochavlighting.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543025/9143789.pdf
    • http://mygametruckcostamesa.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813524/daporibol.pdf
    • http://estrategiaycoach.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775510/cd302f.pdf
    • http://bucketmedia.net/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313363/goder.pdf
    • http://takebackministries.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589412/gisem.pdf
    • http://drupalcmsmasters.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130489361/8363779.pdf
    • http://udder1.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969186/9230997.pdf
    • http://www.kilpatrickpropertygroupllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539341/130539341.html#foxit+mobilepdf+business+apk+download

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00002fb3.bin
c421fac6c3b8c4ecbe588ae1607dda1fe1876359f8ac22b59318bed40f0e44ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2FB3 8628 bytes