Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5708de1c05a3e903…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2018-12-11 20:44:34 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe InDesign CS6 (Macintosh) (via Adobe PDF Library 10.0.1)
MD5: 462ec4aa676947d3d7706851e9b79c62 SHA-1: 24bbee56cbe55390cb24da4ded759d34ca336df3 SHA-256: 5708de1c05a3e9032e81038e928f325476862055a48745e15f944f0eaf3a4505
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a large number of external links, indicating a link farm. The primary heuristic identified a "PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM" with 32 external PDF links, suggesting the document's purpose is to drive traffic to these external resources. The embedded URLs are all hosted on the same domain, `gorillawalker.com`, and appear to be book titles, likely used to manipulate search engine results or to distribute further malicious content disguised as legitimate documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8634

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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    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/schema#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/