Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2be5f17873c638ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2019-04-11 21:02:32 +03:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 8.1 for Word (via Acrobat Distiller 8.1.0 (Windows))
MD5: e596e38e1b8e1011c8540685b4619a82 SHA-1: c78b4e6c53ef80015d5f6b122d1e3b05b6448f2f SHA-256: 2be5f17873c638ee7493af0db82bb584ff41f63ac55b386f33caacb09f261eb5
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 websites, 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 unreadable, but the presence of numerous links suggests a lure to external content, potentially for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8452

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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