Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b231c6973c92355…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2018-12-07 18:27:19 +03:00 Authoring application: easyPDF Printer Driver 4.3 (via BCL easyPDF 4.30 (0303))
MD5: cbb69fb0d2d024cf5fb08d5d555ef0b3 SHA-1: 6b60ee75cafabbb806ac33549b55162746df8923 SHA-256: 7b231c6973c92355efcd7fbbedbcd9f19ff3659d185b6a4fcce3269b90674dd1
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and a critical heuristic for containing a large number of external PDF links. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content. The primary attack pattern appears to be a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content, as indicated by the numerous URLs pointing to PDF files on gorillawalker.com.

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/