Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 837206559fb22701…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2018-12-14 20:59:51 +03:00 Authoring application: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2 (via Acrobat Distiller 10.1.2 (Windows))
MD5: 6bcca0dd9051a470a5b884cd454fbd48 SHA-1: 84039db425a2ebebc81b137acba256e815083d33 SHA-256: 837206559fb227017517762560dd49b0ef3ba8e180e1729850b7473a11bb97b2
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a link farm, indicating the presence of numerous external links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains embedded URLs pointing to a domain that hosts many PDF files. This suggests the primary purpose is to direct users to a large collection of external documents, likely for SEO manipulation or to serve as a distribution point for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8859

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.
    URL http://www.gorillawalker.com/losing-touch-with-nature-literature-and-the-new-science-in.pdf
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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/