Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53b7f08b342964d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.4 KB Created: 2015-06-03 16:40:08 +03:00 Authoring application: DOMPDF
MD5: 0462665ed9201f119235a8889f7fd3e4 SHA-1: 1d543559f2377291cd2768b6861e68b99595b237 SHA-256: 53b7f08b342964d1cee063e17c1b18404d695a7dd48fe4a4d247d295dc2b341a
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The document body also repeats these URLs and contains text related to financial trading, suggesting a lure to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to a link farm, likely for SEO poisoning or to serve further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5320

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.
    URL http://www.academiafutebolangola.com/index.php?2015/hmdeepfocus.pdf&audtr=1&aspx=249
    • http://www.nibl.co.nz/index.php?2015/decision.pdf&angzv=1&aspx=1771
    • http://www.kbb-gesellschaft.de/index.php?2015/ergoarena.pdf&urggv=1&aspx=666
    • http://www.prequine.com/index.php?2015/torcida.pdf&fcldj=1&aspx=1548
    • http://www.kbb-gesellschaft.de/index.php?2015/ergoarena.pdf&urggv=1&aspx=1782
    • http://dyrlaegecentret.dk/index.php?2015/typestitch.pdf&hjhle=1&aspx=sitemap