Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65ccc751f9cf2596…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2018-11-23 08:00:38 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe InDesign CS6 (Windows) (via Adobe PDF Library 10.0.1)
MD5: f9a93ab2374aa229430a408f57ef0451 SHA-1: bc85373bedcebf8aca69ba1ed6759aacbc3c88b7 SHA-256: 65ccc751f9cf25969648b177eb7e2794655cd1f64c09c9f4b359ff540abdfc40
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, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute additional malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links suggests a potential for further malicious activity or a phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9171

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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