Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8291d580d6eaa110…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2018-11-23 20:31:06 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe Acrobat 7.0 (via Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Image Conversion Plug-in)
MD5: cfe2e859c88a389f37900045d2326a22 SHA-1: 69fa36de602d495ad8678336f853b4b2fe69435a SHA-256: 8291d580d6eaa110f495ae88c68677700006e0456f396b8b741881d6fdbbf031
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for containing a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier also indicated a high probability of maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of embedded URLs points to a malicious intent to direct users to potentially harmful content hosted on www.gorillawalker.com.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8872

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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