Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58250034b2e8b4e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2018-12-15 20:07:42 +03:00 Authoring application: QuarkXPress(R) 9.0
MD5: 445e29b88356b2e39a98937c39807b44 SHA-1: 2ec07dbec4ffb7d8be1ae0c02a151045692b12ad SHA-256: 58250034b2e8b4e24a4a8a1419337ed9c803bc8cf7802dbc44776cc8ceeed962
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external websites, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged the document as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links suggests a coordinated effort to direct users to potentially harmful or deceptive content, possibly for SEO manipulation or to serve as a landing page for further attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9027

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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