Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55045e16cc991614…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.6 KB Created: 2019-11-03 20:32:33 +00:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7 First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: 617d0b07e40bb049b049d0ed0105676f SHA-1: d33b49199573c20aecfb9b46b5058e260e270e6f SHA-256: 55045e16cc99161431f3cd9a146c882fb25df5dfe897cb3b94aad1c7badca14c
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. These URLs point to external resources, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to these sites. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The exact intent of the linked sites is unclear, but the pattern suggests SEO manipulation or a potential gateway to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9810

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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