Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b4edbda8e574ebf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2018-11-23 21:03:37 +03:00 Authoring application: LaTeX with hyperref and pdfscreen (via Mac OS X 10.5.7 Quartz PDFContext)
MD5: 5c275f999f9cc6907600838231a65a89 SHA-1: 6c0c92c1665c2ef8a47539e84c4a1715a126b411 SHA-256: 4b4edbda8e574ebf45e3bb6a4f1c7c0d41f8f1ea5e42572fb1a508e9f2dca6d1
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or distribution mechanism. The primary heuristic indicates a PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, with 32 external links found. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links and the ML classification point towards a malicious intent, likely related to SEO manipulation or distributing further malicious content.

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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