Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05cebf355f0bce99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.9 KB Created: 2019-12-13 19:48:12 +03:00 Authoring application: TeX (via MiKTeX pdfTeX-1.40.9)
MD5: fd4be2e6c0c1d981d04c931edeca7ed5 SHA-1: a9269d34028b3769c91cf22f0dba4212fcbc1e0c SHA-256: 05cebf355f0bce9916ddb56124b06997469cb07351b6fd9e2b659114788cc7d5
112 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which appear to be book titles, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document is designed to prompt users to call a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious intent, likely to direct users to malicious websites or engage them in a scam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8218

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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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    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/schema#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/