Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 676433e3e7ac1516…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.5 KB Created: 2021-04-11 11:10:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 3147efe190fe307c487355b49a483390 SHA-1: 9a0b5b286a4df25cef98f8c65c97c29748ff5f2d SHA-256: 676433e3e7ac151684491d2799845b85bfaa5a52c5a050eee5c60b49d5f61bb6
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious and contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains that appear to be part of a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for a large number of links, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8985

Heuristics 3

  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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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