Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b59a36f22053469…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB Created: 2015-06-03 16:38:00 +03:00 Authoring application: DOMPDF
MD5: c479bde78810511ce000d44ba4286761 SHA-1: 2c88620b982fd0839fc4cfb32ccd2320bbee9cae SHA-256: 8b59a36f22053469adce6e7f2f6ab3f3e220669b5e6635392abb7d696bec26ea
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Forex trading training scams' and lists various trading-related terms, suggesting a lure to engage users. The embedded URLs are likely intended to redirect users to malicious websites or for SEO manipulation purposes. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.1561

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.academiafutebolangola.com/index.php?2015/hmdeepfocus.pdf&audtr=1&aspx=1411
    • http://phcccolorado.org/index.php?2015/arabtera.pdf&effpp=1&aspx=802
    • http://www.kbb-gesellschaft.de/index.php?2015/ergoarena.pdf&urggv=1&aspx=1682
    • http://www.nibl.co.nz/index.php?2015/decision.pdf&angzv=1&aspx=1418
    • http://www.nibl.co.nz/index.php?2015/decision.pdf&angzv=1&aspx=466
    • http://dyrlaegecentret.dk/index.php?2015/typestitch.pdf&hjhle=1&aspx=sitemap