Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24729741b5b518aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.8 KB Created: 2015-06-03 16:38:02 +03:00 Authoring application: DOMPDF
MD5: 6078f74c9f0731920aa4b6a287750fb3 SHA-1: 30b133ca4263c96dcce7718282794dace9a4291d SHA-256: 24729741b5b518aaebb7642fb8b82164224ab6899b5ec5f2e5655c1000ab7f80
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded URLs that point to external PDF documents. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM specifically flags this pattern, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to these external links.

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://www.kbb-gesellschaft.de/index.php?2015/ergoarena.pdf&urggv=1&aspx=499
    • http://www.nibl.co.nz/index.php?2015/decision.pdf&angzv=1&aspx=2084
    • http://www.prequine.com/index.php?2015/torcida.pdf&fcldj=1&aspx=988
    • http://www.prequine.com/index.php?2015/torcida.pdf&fcldj=1&aspx=2490
    • http://www.prequine.com/index.php?2015/torcida.pdf&fcldj=1&aspx=1531
    • http://dyrlaegecentret.dk/index.php?2015/typestitch.pdf&hjhle=1&aspx=sitemap