Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48a66adaea95a8b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2018-11-14 08:20:50 +03:00 Authoring application: dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (via AFPL Ghostscript 8.51)
MD5: ecc36c56d4b713dd1fbcf6181e077212 SHA-1: 99f99e02ead176561364ce00fb76ef71fa40bbfb SHA-256: 48a66adaea95a8b74e589922623412506120a6947597bebca47a4fb9a1c22181
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files hosted on www.gorillawalker.com. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with a high probability. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact user-facing lure.

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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