Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a1edc4bc1ecd550…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2019-07-13 04:01:43 +03:00 Authoring application: QuarkXPress(R) 8.0
MD5: 0dab1f80ad5ff38ef5ba665a871d5978 SHA-1: cc5d178cf9684262f607c045a986ee7810418520 SHA-256: 3a1edc4bc1ecd550a49a01ca40364122f8efd02eb4c9b97d42ec8bb335c20459
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, pointing to various PDF files on the gorillawalker.com domain. This suggests a link farm or content distribution tactic. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic also flagged the file with high confidence. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8529

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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