Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0691a96411d6ffe4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2019-04-04 16:23:11 +03:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 10.1 for Word (via Adobe PDF Library 10.0)
MD5: 5a35674459e9f476e0498e6badc6d408 SHA-1: bcb8ef908e37cc1869b1e81b9e5f2fc1ccc9d0a8 SHA-256: 0691a96411d6ffe45fa57d4a1eb2d65788a47a4ec02a218fe57b555526f714ae
152 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. This suggests the document is designed to drive traffic to a specific domain, potentially for SEO manipulation or to serve as a distribution point for other malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9181

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.Dropper.Agent-7159662-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7159662-0
  • 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.
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