Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 470a0707cfc3b6e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.1 KB Created: 2019-12-14 07:13:19 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe Acrobat 10.1 (via Adobe Acrobat 10.1 Paper Capture Plug-in)
MD5: 44bc43ed43b53d73c3e46145602bc075 SHA-1: b58f6ee134355c5aa55253c796806bacc7e45511 SHA-256: 470a0707cfc3b6e369f776a42009025af2a0ee2faa49e8f1cf2f31536b585f7d
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for containing a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attack. The ML classifier also indicated a high probability of maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the sheer volume of links to seemingly unrelated PDF documents points to a deceptive or manipulative purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8447

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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