Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff337ad98b918f97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.0 KB Created: 2020-11-07 10:07:07 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c9f9cc7ed6ef48c744b996bf59e7acec SHA-1: 676a489e3606b3f005a6232bec04ea8fe2e0bbbc SHA-256: ff337ad98b918f97b31e7ee0e95d0d8f11c29de9cd072a452c65e0767460bcc3
114 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical for phishing campaigns. It contains a clickable external URI that leads to a URL associated with 'multiplying rational numbers worksheet answer', suggesting a deceptive pretext. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to other PDFs, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or improve SEO for malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 16 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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 https://trafftec.ru/123?keyword=multiplying+rational+numbers+worksheet+answer
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