Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 196fbe8d425e681b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2018-12-15 08:53:03 +03:00 Authoring application: FrameMaker 6.0 (via Acrobat Distiller 6.0.1 for Macintosh)
MD5: af7359a86aa834b83c5303cd0c38c0b9 SHA-1: ed7c68132ca2078de9fed4c9752131ee8ee1839d SHA-256: 196fbe8d425e681bf8f7512265ae6df1f72435913c6306a6aeddf5bd23e46fb0
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains a large number of external links, indicating a potential link farm or distribution mechanism. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' specifically calls out the mass external PDF link farm. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9007

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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