Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b405667c5942c69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.7 KB Created: 2015-06-04 18:30:14 +04:00 Authoring application: DOMPDF First seen: 2015-06-09
MD5: 51ee7c69a0dc1338709e23f437d6b50a SHA-1: be9a7efaefefe572cf47770065b0cc7142766d70 SHA-256: 7b405667c5942c696161b36cbed4197aef5899f015e3ada9c61ea89b4f9be012
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, primarily related to binary options trading, suggesting a spam or phishing lure. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARM' indicates a high volume of links pointing to PHP gateways, often used for SEO spam or redirecting to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the content strongly suggest an attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious financial schemes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5034

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://www.mafiaracing.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/marketleader/binary+signals.pdf&psgtl=3&news=841 PDF link annotation
    • http://hmjamaat.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/medica/binary+options+ebooks.pdf&hrvuw=2&news=1162In PDF document text
    • http://www.skillmadeiras.com.br/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/crytix/u.s.+binary+options.pdf&pbqku=1&news=746In PDF document text
    • http://www.gopelion.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/mataam/cfd+binary+options.pdf&iiktw=2&news=1666In PDF document text
    • http://www.vanwandelensweets.eu/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/baovethientam/binary+option+jackpot.pdf&qbtie=1&news=1257In PDF document text
    • http://www.osteriaballaro.it/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/mitheme/binary+trading+practice.pdf&sjbgc=1&news=2850In 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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