Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ad815331147545f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2018-12-15 08:09:51 +03:00 Authoring application: TeX (via pdfTeX-0.14f)
MD5: d0373c424ca360ec278448e96ca16c98 SHA-1: e44e9c26ec07d6c03458b35645621d63a6a4cb56 SHA-256: 3ad815331147545f5feced40bd0c0a95c3f08b0062968a6b3abe3ac6e3d54187
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and a critical heuristic for containing a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm. These links point to various PDF documents hosted on 'gorillawalker.com', indicating a potential attempt at SEO manipulation or a distribution point for further malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8872

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/
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    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/