Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 617c2d84929b66f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2019-04-11 16:13:48 +03:00 Authoring application: LaTeX with hyperref package (via xdvipdfmx)
MD5: 52abc751bf6f3b0aeec10d5fe8b35ca4 SHA-1: 2d55fcd5a7e611b961022f9110702570b595552a SHA-256: 617c2d84929b66f4142f0dd8bd9f37ef98d7a30b269fdeebd77442c0aa4f73fd
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains a large number of embedded external links. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates that the document is designed to host a mass of external PDF links, likely for SEO manipulation or to serve as a distribution point for other malicious content. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9181

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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    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/