Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4742cc3eb9b1a323…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2018-12-15 20:01:50 +03:00 Authoring application: PScript5.dll Version 5.2 (via GPL Ghostscript 8.15)
MD5: 05c232ecd22878fd5d1b80db742a9991 SHA-1: de535a0ea27ee5d75f321ac4d7abaa7199f3e497 SHA-256: 4742cc3eb9b1a3234a9347c69e34a8596abfc1356f323c6ab5adf27136f88cde
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7142790-0 and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The primary heuristic firing, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, indicates the presence of a large number of external links, with the first URL being http://www.gorillawalker.com/leni-riefenstahl-a-memoir.pdf. This suggests the document's purpose is to host a link farm for SEO manipulation or to direct users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8683

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7142790-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7142790-0
  • 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.
    URL http://www.gorillawalker.com/leni-riefenstahl-a-memoir.pdf
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    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/