Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ceeecbc33c1f7f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2018-12-07 18:27:35 +03:00 Authoring application: dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (via AFPL Ghostscript 8.51)
MD5: ff1d7031f50155a6e803d9fedefdbaa6 SHA-1: 80ae939a861da566ebb300567fb316c39e80955b SHA-256: 7ceeecbc33c1f7f1c465511efcc5497d43e3f4e9f72fc5122d4cc7bd381d023d
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. This suggests a tactic to distribute or obscure malicious content by linking to numerous seemingly innocuous documents. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic further supports the malicious nature of the file. While no specific payload is directly executed from this PDF, its function as a link farm is a common distribution method.

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/