Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28f6a836d4b1458f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2018-12-07 18:28:19 +03:00 Authoring application: XEP 4.4 build 20050610
MD5: bf440647f87516a1707ba4f678c55a6c SHA-1: e0ae19d74bc90c4a85aa636fc8fb428274cb01b4 SHA-256: 28f6a836d4b1458f80e6322b013805605b3d0ea89750819c3699404e5382f4b1
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures, but the sheer volume of links suggests a malicious intent, possibly for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8698

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.gorillawalker.com/sacred-war-nationalism-and-revolution-in-a-divided-vietnam.pdf
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    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-philosophy-of-mathematical-practice.pdf
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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/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • 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/