Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76981ef108448d31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2019-03-17 11:01:25 +03:00 Authoring application: PDFCreator Version 0.9.8 (via GPL Ghostscript 8.64)
MD5: 8016e68394822d9bb3898f10e0c3672e SHA-1: 6ab76aea7158b6a4910d15ddb10add408277e282 SHA-256: 76981ef108448d31b017aff22a06e1f0ea8b1cfc49b34dcf032ff8a871d724df
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious. Static analysis revealed a large number of embedded external links, characteristic of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to a large collection of PDF files hosted on gorillawalker.com, likely as a distribution or redirection mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8600

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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