Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a62234cd8d5af23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2018-11-30 20:28:00 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe Acrobat 8.3 Combine Files (via Adobe Acrobat 8.31 Paper Capture Plug-in)
MD5: 3e6f7238022c629f284a9285c0373817 SHA-1: 49ca06bc3296076929561fc5d20e50c8bdb878fd SHA-256: 2a62234cd8d5af2331ae58fa90b17d2f5c84abc1f1308b66ae418bcf5a9f7a8a
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content indirectly. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine a more specific attack pattern beyond link distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9027

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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