Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fae8ecf65f76eb95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.3 KB Authoring application: PDF Studio
MD5: 2fcdaca17e24d8ebd62d6ad43c07b701 SHA-1: 435d0ad5ce9fe85acfa7b1d731cae535c5495839 SHA-256: fae8ecf65f76eb957e9661ea9d5cac0d50815211c4ad122cab8f7b4a804c5456
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical alert for a link farm and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.TtraffRobotInstall-7605656-0'. The document body contains numerous embedded URLs, suggesting a phishing or SEO spam campaign. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users through a large number of external links.

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://bareinsights.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639463/5701893.pdf
    • http://angieballoons.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313585/buwej_lojidi.pdf
    • http://momsofzion.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639791/vexafawazabuzo_lofumudebew.pdf
    • http://naturalhealthexpo.ie/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590367/ced199526ad.pdf
    • http://ashlandfenceco.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739696/bezibajonogiz-rudiga-momaf.pdf
    • http://birthingbreechbabies.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620694/9084745.pdf
    • http://morahill.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289244/ziwonu_gepotolusi_muwituf_jilazezi.pdf
    • http://stokesed508webpage.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476632/130476632.html#9+s%C4%B1n%C4%B1f+biyoloji+soru+bankas%C4%B1+pdf+in

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000134b.bin
bab2cba40de5a630bdc827859d7f9989a707ee1a4f708a910fc3d7f1c7525e87
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134B 8996 bytes