Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e246fddd1d6afd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2018-12-02 10:59:13 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe PageMaker 6.5 (via Acrobat Distiller 3.0 for Windows)
MD5: b5f51efde3b29be171decd0ac6443e5c SHA-1: e947f2449aaa485c6090c9d0e0748fc33ef1ffb4 SHA-256: 5e246fddd1d6afd69111747813c1f1c41270b217ea807cb691cc752544e6ff46
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files on the domain 'www.gorillawalker.com'. This is indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic, potentially used to distribute malicious content or improve search engine ranking for malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this behavior. The ML classifier also flagged the document as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8872

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.
    URL http://www.gorillawalker.com/healthy-habits-for-healthy-kids-grade-k.pdf
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    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/on-jean-am-ry-philosophy-of-catastrophe.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/advances-in-photochemistry-volume-22.pdf
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    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/mild-cognitive-impairment-and-dementia-definitions-diagnosis-and-treatment-american.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/renaissance-new-testament-the-acts-10-34-23-36.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/relationship-tools-for-positive-change.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/scaling-self-similarity-and-intermediate-asymptotics-dimensional-analysis-and-intermediate.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-four-faces-of-jesus-kindle-edition.pdf
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    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/speaking-through-pictures-hello-out-there.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/britannica-encyclopedia-2011.pdf
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    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-art-of-landscape-painting-in-oil-colours.pdf
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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/