Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ad49df98df02c6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2019-03-17 07:03:53 +03:00 Authoring application: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2 (via Acrobat Distiller 11.0 (Windows))
MD5: 049643998ec1bf6f88da829c8c849546 SHA-1: b65256874bf2c5f13d634c4ef01579f1aded90a6 SHA-256: 8ad49df98df02c6ddedf29fd44a881e15936a3efc7d55ac33e4bb37e3091ca2e
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 contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files hosted on 'gorillawalker.com'. This heuristic, combined with the ML classification, suggests a malicious intent, likely related to SEO manipulation or a link farm designed to direct users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body contained obfuscated text and URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8812

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://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
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    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/