Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77b86615a7910775…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2018-11-15 05:55:37 +03:00 Authoring application: dvips 5.83 (MiKTeX 1.20b) Copyright 1998 Radical Eye Software (via Acrobat Distiller 4.0 for Windows)
MD5: 97580c4a5054b8c4d863487bce445d59 SHA-1: c08cd29f6f58a84d30a36e43b0145abcb6bdcad5 SHA-256: 77b86615a7910775c9008a78e0d180b92b7f1bdce9144654fb204b2413c8bfdb
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files on the same domain, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS classifier and the sheer volume of external links suggest a malicious intent, possibly for SEO spam or to distribute further payloads. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9027

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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