Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23bd7c1465036466…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.3 KB Created: 2015-07-15 16:26:23 +04:00 Authoring application: DOMPDF
MD5: 6984689675c4f99bae2aead499f07600 SHA-1: cb6be5a49ee3b99777876f931e713bad5cb03f51 SHA-256: 23bd7c14650364669f4dcfbd994343a35d1b09febd45ad7875e46323d36dc917
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, forming a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URLs likely lead to phishing or scam content, aiming to trick users into visiting potentially harmful websites. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8883

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://chavagnes.com/index.php?article=2341.2&urwbo=2&pdf=2341
    • http://pamojaexpeditions.com/index.php?article=1592.2&lqpte=2&pdf=1592
    • http://archerwealth.com.au/index.php?article=1786.1&ldzws=1&pdf=1786
    • http://chavagnes.com/index.php?article=243.2&urwbo=2&pdf=243
    • http://www.ivanandpamela.com/index.php?article=692.1&tekgj=1&pdf=692
    • http://chavagnes.com/index.php?article=1363.2&urwbo=2&pdf=1363
    • http://csurgoiszennyviztarsulas.hu/index.php?article=847.2&hvyoo=2&pdf=847
    • http://pleasereadbible.com/index.php?article=498.1&ofdkh=1&pdf=498
    • http://www.mantrabeautybar.ca/index.php?article=1300.1&rukbv=1&pdf=1300
    • http://chavagnes.com/index.php?article=1188.2&urwbo=2&pdf=1188
    • http://chavagnes.com/index.php?article=2452.2&urwbo=2&pdf=2452
    • http://chavagnes.com/index.php?article=93.2&urwbo=2&pdf=93
    • http://intelluride.co/index.php?article=1627.1&gdfls=1&pdf=1627
    • http://chavagnes.com/index.php?article=1789.2&urwbo=2&pdf=1789
    • http://yapi-yapi.com/index.php?article=1421.4&uiwvz=4&pdf=1421
    • http://chavagnes.com/index.php?article=972.2&urwbo=2&pdf=972
    • http://regionori.ru/index.php?article=984.1&lcnlt=1&pdf=984