Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d727ce8e79e9a27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.6 KB Created: 2020-02-21 01:46:23 +03:00 Authoring application: CorelDRAW X8 (via Corel PDF Engine Version 18.1.0.661)
MD5: 763eaa589eac9c8c887c2f64d8005549 SHA-1: 6c7e4ce77af4b0fe68e683aea2037aa8d139e233 SHA-256: 6d727ce8e79e9a27c765dc4bc37397739dd957f39b05bfb6a9d010b00c3d5cbe
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links pointing to external PDF files on the domain 'gorillawalker.com'. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic, but given the malicious verdict and ML classification, it is more likely used to distribute further malicious content or to mask malicious activity. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is the primary vector for the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8255

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.
    URL http://www.gorillawalker.com/topsy-the-startling-story-of-the-crooked-tailed-elephant-p.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-busy-bus-a-collection-of-short-children-s-poems.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/tatiana-upward-way-chronicles-volume-1.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-rough-guide-to-bali-and-lombok.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/60-worksheets-finding-face-values-with-3-digit-numbers-math.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-evidence-for-god-the-case-for-the-existence-of.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/final-fantasy-type-0-hd-prima-official-game-guide-prima.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/lass-of-the-ley-lines-a-scottish-time-travel-romance.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/three-tales-of-enchantment-sleeping-beauty-the-little-mermaid-beauty.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/judicial-tyranny-the-new-kings-of-america-kindle-edition.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-cake-set-silicone-cooking-set.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/an-unauthorized-guide-to-mulaney-the-john-mulaney-sitcom-on.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/musical-meaning-and-expression.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/looking-at-dance.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/why-america-fights-patriotism-and-war-propaganda-from-the-philippines.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/understanding-creating-and-implementing-contracts.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/treatise-on-the-heathen-superstitions-that-today-live-among-the.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-seven-principles-of-man-man-and-his-bodies.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/hauswandbilder-in-berlin-teil-1-volume-10-german-edition.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-ice-age-a-very-short-introduction-very-short-introductions.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/multiply-disciples-making-disciples.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-hok-guidebook-to-sustainable-design.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/bollywood-for-beginners-the-mini-book.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/pigsty-audio.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-brazilian-cat-annotated-kindle-edition.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-evolution-of-regulation-twentieth-century-lessons-and-twenty-first.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/discovering-china-library-of-the-history-of-ideas.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/hengeyokai-shapeshifters-of-the-east.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/tantra-illuminated-the-philosophy-history-and-practice-of-a-timeless.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/portal-to-loch-doon-time-travel-historical-romance.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/grammar-and-vocabulary-for-first-and-first-for-schools-book.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/basic-pharmacokinetics.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-music-of-failure-fesler-lampert-minnesota-heritage.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-digital-reproduction.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/bhagavad-gita-text-and-translation-the-lord-s-song.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/touring-map-of-scotland-companion-to-the-scottish-tourist-board.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/handbook-of-semantic-web-technologies.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-population-biology-of-tuberculosis-monographs-in-population-biology.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/off-the-grid-coastal-british-columbia-stories-book-10-kindle.pdf
    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/my-thyroid-disease-story-the-confessions-of-a-treated-hypothyroid.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/schema#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/