Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 075598b5b7756d79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-04-25 17:13:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 71c8b645ef0c3c4f8524a837a753c79d SHA-1: 0a44417fb475ad4a1283cb4e8fa8d7d4b02e8e51 SHA-256: 075598b5b7756d79ea36be71e0c1335caf50981bd2415c29aff0f25ce4e1c774
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, a common tactic for SEO spam or phishing. The primary link, 'http://andreapaoneofficial.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488506/130488506.html#app+like+play+store', suggests a lure related to app stores. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and extensive link farm indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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.
  • 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 http://andreapaoneofficial.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488506/130488506.html#app+like+play+store
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