Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 553e119aeda8770f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2019-03-17 01:36:47 +03:00 Authoring application: - (via iText 2.1.0 (by lowagie.com))
MD5: 6d39553fa26fd80eb5a9387be72cfbb3 SHA-1: 9cdc1ac2e39d1c84a989259c7243961b82048570 SHA-256: 553e119aeda8770f0139d6fceb446dc2edd6b1de59849c1de47e8a9b13b5b998
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a large number of external links, indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links suggests a potential for distributing malicious content or driving traffic to compromised sites. The attack pattern is likely related to SEO poisoning or a phishing lure disguised as legitimate 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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