Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79fe5785a8d6c782…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2018-11-14 08:34:40 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe InDesign CS3 (5.0) (via Adobe PDF Library 8.0)
MD5: a8c0d6eab27e9e6d4743a83a77eaa098 SHA-1: 0aa828856fad0985daa7a1c0b65b8afbc726cc82 SHA-256: 79fe5785a8d6c7828781ba68d29ca1ab5194c727e6598d092cb57fb264d64ba8
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF documents, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic firing strongly supports the malicious verdict. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, preventing a deeper analysis of the specific lure.

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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    • 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/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • 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/