Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cd9ccea8485c7d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2018-12-15 20:06:49 +03:00 Authoring application: QuarkXPress¢â: LaserWriter 8 KH-8.7.1 (via Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh)
MD5: ad560e1efd45620c086f1f82034c1f60 SHA-1: be5e40a4b03f4e2cd3817a9b1cde63893b3b79b0 SHA-256: 0cd9ccea8485c7d6115ace5eab76aad6044d8bfca1e09135196d619ea18349eb
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for containing a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or a phishing attempt. The ML classifier also indicated a high probability of maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of embedded URLs points towards an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious external sites, likely as part of a phishing or content-scraping scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9171

Heuristics 2

  • 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.
  • 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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