Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7875777797fa114e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.6 KB Created: 2015-06-04 18:32:43 +04:00 Authoring application: DOMPDF First seen: 2015-06-23
MD5: e131ba20ed937dfa9b4746d770ba74aa SHA-1: 9a741000788148acc409a7171087b472ad1689d9 SHA-256: 7875777797fa114e25c788db6d5b445d156b61d8ac82c42832c0200a7a7e8083
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs that point to SEO-spam websites, primarily focused on binary options and stock options trading. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARM' confirms the presence of a link farm, indicating a likely attempt to drive traffic to these sites. While no scripts were extracted, the document body and embedded URLs suggest a phishing or scam attempt related to financial trading.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5034

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://selye.hu/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/broadcast/binary+trade+canada.pdf&cbavp=1&news=1505 In PDF document text
    • http://laminatecountertopshouston.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/bisnis/u7+binary+options.pdf&yqofh=1&news=2934In PDF document text
    • http://breezeinn.com.au/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/guesthouse/markets+world+binary+review.pdf&ftzpd=1&news=2956In PDF document text
    • http://caskaeliteaudio.com.br/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/pandrade/binary+options+formula.pdf&qdvaj=1&news=2676In PDF document text
    • http://emptymindsradio.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/travelersdaily/binary+option+data.pdf&kpqoo=2&news=2226In PDF document text
    • http://websolutions.sg/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/radiozuid/binary+options+broker+review.pdf&kbwax=1&news=2705In PDF document text
    • http://www.supermaraton.eu/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/housepop/binaryoptionstradingguide.com.pdf&owutp=1&news=sitemapIn PDF document text

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