Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7929f6f108d3b5ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.2 KB Created: 2020-02-08 21:01:57 +03:00 Authoring application: LaTeX with hyperref package (via pdfeTeX-1.10b)
MD5: ed366cad02be51ecc2eec7b293767fb3 SHA-1: 2169b36da4120c79d8364002b476b0f4728a1012 SHA-256: 7929f6f108d3b5ab2aea273a85449e4580c03cb01c037517299343c706daab58
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external websites, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to these sites, potentially for SEO manipulation or to serve as a landing page for further malicious activity. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8529

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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