Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6be229325b48239b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.7 KB Created: 2015-06-04 18:31:12 +04:00 Authoring application: DOMPDF First seen: 2015-06-09
MD5: c558aae10c90bec1f8bc6ca05325f886 SHA-1: b8ab58108bc901f49672d61e9201174c81b3436c SHA-256: 6be229325b48239b77c6563ec010ba7cd9fa4a087862422570386a22ca30cf6d
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external websites, identified as a PHP-gateway SEO-spam link farm. The document body also contains these URLs and text related to binary options trading, suggesting a lure to these external sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the heuristic firings indicate a malicious intent to redirect users, likely for phishing or to serve further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5040

Heuristics 2

  • PDF carries a PHP-gateway SEO-spam PDF link farm medium PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains four or more clickable links whose target is a `.php` gateway with a multi-word search-PHRASE document slug embedded after it (e.g. 'index.php?.../binary+options+trading+nz.pdf' or 'pdf.php/cialis-dosage-side-effects.pdf'). Legitimate PHP-served documents use a filename or numeric id, not a search-query phrase, so this is the generated SEO link-farm shape — pharma / binary-options / 'free download' spam that ranks for queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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://iddpmidlongisland.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/modules/binary+options+60+second+signals.pdf&bphpr=1&news=558 In PDF document text
    • http://itpromo.be/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/resurrect/binary+options+is+it+real.pdf&gjcph=1&news=383In PDF document text
    • http://networkmedia.tv/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/expedia/1+minute+binary+options+system.pdf&sxgko=2&news=1921In PDF document text
    • http://oilflux.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/digidroid/binaryoptions.net.au.pdf&kclnt=8&news=1635In PDF document text
    • http://ozsoyenerji.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/shredoptics/binary+trading+canada.pdf&laeen=1&news=1774In PDF document text
    • http://herbalshop.com.ua/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/ephototheme/binary+option+in+malaysia.pdf&cahug=1&news=2188In PDF document text
    • http://www.supermaraton.eu/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/housepop/binaryoptionstradingguide.com.pdf&owutp=1&news=sitemapIn PDF document text