Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2558e9151e67505f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.5 KB Created: 2020-02-21 02:26:01 +03:00 Authoring application: QuarkXPress¢â: LaserWriter 8 KH-8.7.1 (via Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh)
MD5: c0831f0ae55c1d78f90de5eeb1ccc517 SHA-1: 8b73e03454f12b3d401f342bc8691b97e608cbd9 SHA-256: 2558e9151e67505f525b40d1ca0ed38ed3ace487f319f0ea32ec6ace6acb4652
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a large number of external links to other PDF documents hosted on the same domain. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or a distribution mechanism for further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting the analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8529

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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    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
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    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/