Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ae153198b29abf8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.6 KB Created: 2015-06-04 18:30:06 +04:00 Authoring application: DOMPDF First seen: 2015-06-23
MD5: 9c85858a0c81dd58d8f2763f65b7acc7 SHA-1: 78540f6114fab8e0ba377f0d8583740da5ba0525 SHA-256: 0ae153198b29abf87817a93c5f2fda364bd90f5dd1df6c88640a296bd944ae41
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded links to external websites, predominantly related to binary options trading. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARM' indicates this is likely a link farm designed for SEO spam. While no scripts were extracted, the document body and embedded URLs suggest a phishing or spamming attempt to direct users to potentially malicious or scam-related content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5034

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://highlandsmommies.org/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/degusto/binary+option+system+j25.pdf&qejwh=3&news=1720 In PDF document text
    • http://www.osteriaballaro.it/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/mitheme/binary+trading+practice.pdf&sjbgc=1&news=2960In 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=491In PDF document text
    • http://teamworkworks.org/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/armstrongfeed/binary+options+trading+nz.pdf&pansy=1&news=1103In PDF document text
    • http://rafcar24.pl/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/letizia/binary+option+usa.pdf&fnewq=1&news=387In PDF document text
    • http://www.cityofcarmi.org/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/seventeen/binary+option+system+008.pdf&khfas=1&news=338In 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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