Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36e924c51bbbbff0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2018-12-07 18:29:55 +03:00 Authoring application: Microsoft® Word 2010 (via Acrobat Distiller 11.0 (Windows))
MD5: 52ea6e05bccd1fbe6ac2e2a3f6b06f49 SHA-1: ac1735d532214c9c04e9d48f52e14c3bda7964e4 SHA-256: 36e924c51bbbbff0bceb3082cdac59e8e138e024a83d676f08dbf371e2d19436
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. This suggests a link farm or a method to distribute malicious content indirectly. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic further supports the malicious nature of the file. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the specific payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9181

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://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
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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/