Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3306e7b4ca36484f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2019-02-14 08:12:44 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe InDesign CS2_J (4.0.5) (via Adobe PDF Library 7.0)
MD5: bca9fd642539e488745eef3edd704750 SHA-1: 6924cf84dcc0adc5c3249ff9614e7ec9aa7a7759 SHA-256: 3306e7b4ca36484f134b5e1a4dbda22fa3ca74df55c0917318a10c5d17628e5b
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a large number of embedded external links, suggesting a link farm or a distribution mechanism for other malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of linked PDFs points towards a malicious intent, likely related to SEO manipulation or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs are the primary IOCs.

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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    • 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/