Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85e8ed55366ee613…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2018-12-07 18:29:45 +03:00 Authoring application: dvips(k) 5.993 Copyright 2013 Radical Eye Software (via GPL Ghostscript 9.14)
MD5: 4e4273f441b2d29d6b23da3faaa88cbc SHA-1: b0a362dfa6599299682420ec20e4507762f806b7 SHA-256: 85e8ed55366ee6136e9d3d7867d43f38812ecfcaf32edff667cbed9021d585cf
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing text, but the sheer volume of links suggests a malicious intent, possibly for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8600

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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