Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a0cd68f1c140b15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2018-11-30 20:19:59 +03:00 Authoring application: QuarkXPress: pictwpstops filter 1.0 (via Mac OS X 10.6.8 Quartz PDFContext)
MD5: 04168044123033db826bac4dff980a65 SHA-1: 60ffcb4649720f3802fe3e16fbd468f1f2ef2689 SHA-256: 8a0cd68f1c140b1572e7d8e2b1173c644d5201096063a65d9da8075ac87d4f2f
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and a critical heuristic for containing a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The embedded URLs point to various PDF documents hosted on the same domain, indicating a coordinated effort to distribute content or potentially lure users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

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.
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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/