Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ad23cae764da90c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.6 KB Created: 2020-04-21 10:55:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: ee051900288cee7749fc20d6e26fd4bb SHA-1: 632f61b3f04c0b5ee0495391c9c2f6659789a360 SHA-256: 5ad23cae764da90c9bbe71b0def9cb998de25777c8213074bd59b6fe00dcd4cc
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a high volume of external links, suggesting a distribution or phishing attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's strong flagging point to malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9945

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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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