Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78b96751b30d3b9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2019-03-17 10:53:06 +03:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 9.1 для Word (via Adobe PDF Library 9.0)
MD5: 9667421400b0044c31d15cf5dc0224dd SHA-1: 4a80e1c1deb6195206c7955f7cddacb10c0672cd SHA-256: 78b96751b30d3b9e0ea1161f97c14aed3a7be7ae39fb874560b5992927ddddc3
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, pointing to various PDF files on the same domain. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic indicates a high probability of malicious intent. The embedded links likely serve to manipulate search engine rankings or to distribute additional malicious content, potentially through a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8859

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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    • 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/
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    • 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/