Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16c48594c8c6510b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2018-11-14 08:37:13 +03:00 Authoring application: QuarkXPress(R) 7.01
MD5: fcd6ee3f11e75f550c30295a799c35c5 SHA-1: a5d2bea317aab51d3d9c2264f59a5d46b8ad6b7b SHA-256: 16c48594c8c6510b0346a24a3f68166fef4e84283f638b7a6bd33babc022a0e9
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded external links, as detected by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged the document as malicious. The primary attack pattern appears to be SEO manipulation or hosting malicious content via a link farm, rather than direct exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8634

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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