MALICIOUS
132
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious File
The PDF file contains a launch action that directs the user to download and execute a file named 'updateadobe.exe' from the URL http://www.hidden-sabotage.com/!/updateadobe.exe. This is a common lure to trick users into running malware disguised as a legitimate update. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996
Heuristics 3
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Launch action critical PDF_LAUNCHPDF contains a /Launch action whose target is an executable, URL, or UNC path — can start an external application
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/Launch action target: http://www.hidden-sabotage.com!!!! ! /updateadobe.exe high PDF_LAUNCH_COMMANDPDF /Launch action specifies an executable target.
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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.URL http://www.hidden-sabotage.com
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