Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2571fda2e9f52030…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2019-01-06 08:29:51 +03:00 Authoring application: PageMaker 6.5 (via Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Windows)
MD5: ba0077a3e03658eeaacce38af008c4fd SHA-1: d62edac19e31a947fbcc8a074c89cd416fdeed58 SHA-256: 2571fda2e9f52030b9f0cff70de518f9168628ec3f7a3c0ff1800e80cdc20c01
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a large number of external links, identified as a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains numerous URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on www.gorillawalker.com. This suggests the primary purpose is to direct users to a large collection of external resources, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8500

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/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
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    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/schema#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/