Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 264c4cf28f4eb6cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2018-12-15 08:34:33 +03:00 Authoring application: LaTeX with hyperref package (via pdfTeX-1.40.10)
MD5: 118ab8c3a5adbe6c7800f6cb0b4b6ff4 SHA-1: dd14cd997e13fa5386f70b243c1f9c3dfbcb8360 SHA-256: 264c4cf28f4eb6cf433ce4ff6e6eb3da31e7d01fc0dc44df5af5a03c9f020a3d
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and exhibits a link farm pattern, containing numerous external links to PDF files hosted on www.gorillawalker.com. This suggests a tactic to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO abuse. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9171

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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