Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bc223713c9efdd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.8 KB Created: 2015-06-03 16:38:58 +03:00 Authoring application: DOMPDF
MD5: 057e15004c997c7d92557a4c2adce4fc SHA-1: 95f2dee699b6b0b28563d7dac52ad98d35bfe022 SHA-256: 1bc223713c9efdd89e8416e6012b516b3f20d23caf060f179864ac6f0ebadd3c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a PDF SEO link farm, indicating a large number of external links. The document body is filled with repetitive text related to 'Forex trading' and includes numerous URLs, many of which point to the same domain with varying parameters. This suggests the primary goal is to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to potentially malicious websites through a link farm strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.1434

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.
    URL http://phcccolorado.org/index.php?2015/arabtera.pdf&effpp=1&aspx=486
    • http://phcccolorado.org/index.php?2015/arabtera.pdf&effpp=1&aspx=1163
    • http://www.academiafutebolangola.com/index.php?2015/hmdeepfocus.pdf&audtr=1&aspx=1668
    • http://www.prequine.com/index.php?2015/torcida.pdf&fcldj=1&aspx=1102
    • http://www.nibl.co.nz/index.php?2015/decision.pdf&angzv=1&aspx=1660
    • http://dyrlaegecentret.dk/index.php?2015/typestitch.pdf&hjhle=1&aspx=sitemap