Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 533654a3677df20a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2018-11-26 20:06:48 +03:00 Authoring application: Microsoft® Office Word 2007
MD5: 168712d1cb454af7ac4441722361fbd6 SHA-1: abfb4b9ab8f989570c3b33f75137fbf75b91ceee SHA-256: 533654a3677df20a9f9323777265cf419872b0f4bef72139574f2c0b3a982c91
72 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which appear to be lures for book or music-related content. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates that the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, suggesting a multi-stage attack where the archive contains the actual malicious payload. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of multiple external URIs points towards a delivery mechanism for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8224

Heuristics 3

  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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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