Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f491fd582cf03ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2018-12-07 18:27:24 +03:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 8.1 for Word (via Acrobat Distiller 8.1.0 (Windows))
MD5: 5605131108473590d14af6b578a1a9b7 SHA-1: 8c19eaba5fe4f705c7adac5cfcf6cf5cc43b8d16 SHA-256: 5f491fd582cf03ac38bd21dc6c736a1b9a9183f0483c645caed6ec877f6d7002
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, identified by the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristic suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to a website hosting numerous files. This is often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content, aligning with a spearphishing attachment delivery method.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9007

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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