Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 047c4dd5ea8a52b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2018-11-23 21:03:41 +03:00 Authoring application: calibre 0.9.10 [http://calibre-ebook.com] (via PoDoFo - http://podofo.sf.net)
MD5: 91406a1c37467ca96d4450ff5600e240 SHA-1: 73dfd87ef53b8c610c8fb8b951ab363a621d0fdc SHA-256: 047c4dd5ea8a52b7f674854a4cdc0564fd17fd29275da087e254391a52f0c4d8
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest a potential attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute additional malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8822

Heuristics 2

  • 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.
  • 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.
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