Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 078a714f93acb6f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.8 KB Created: 2015-06-04 18:30:06 +04:00 Authoring application: DOMPDF First seen: 2015-06-30
MD5: 9aa3ad239c83cdd652be9bc5dae69054 SHA-1: 9c9621306f1ad211a9330c2dea2bba8d880c144a SHA-256: 078a714f93acb6f51c40a8f642f7d4ca9708e49b7b498fa5f54836fb30c8eb29
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, identified by the PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARM heuristic, directing users to various websites. These links appear to be part of a link farm designed to drive traffic to sites discussing binary options trading. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious intent, likely for SEO spam or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5040

Heuristics 2

  • PDF carries a PHP-gateway SEO-spam PDF link farm medium PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains four or more clickable links whose target is a `.php` gateway with a multi-word search-PHRASE document slug embedded after it (e.g. 'index.php?.../binary+options+trading+nz.pdf' or 'pdf.php/cialis-dosage-side-effects.pdf'). Legitimate PHP-served documents use a filename or numeric id, not a search-query phrase, so this is the generated SEO link-farm shape — pharma / binary-options / 'free download' spam that ranks for queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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://miharu-k.info/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/dancan/binary+trader+software.pdf&nfhct=1&news=509 In PDF document text
    • http://teamworkworks.org/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/armstrongfeed/binary+options+trading+nz.pdf&pansy=1&news=2078In PDF document text
    • http://nuhyatsanayi.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/vidgamer/binaryoptionstradingsignals.com+scam.pdf&hktpv=1&news=1231In PDF document text
    • http://manny-group.com.mx/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/framwork/binary+options+explanation.pdf&ykipk=1&news=2474In PDF document text
    • http://www.arawakhotelstcroix.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/newstime/what+is+a+binary+options+trading+system.pdf&jduqg=3&news=986In PDF document text
    • http://4smokers.dk/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/funnypictures/binaryoptionsdaily.com+forum.pdf&fdzwn=1&news=1867In PDF document text
    • http://www.supermaraton.eu/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/housepop/binaryoptionstradingguide.com.pdf&owutp=1&news=sitemapIn PDF document text

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