Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b7e0b6ba77da41e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2019-03-17 11:08:58 +03:00 Authoring application: FrameMaker 8.0 (via Acrobat Distiller 10.0.1 (Windows))
MD5: 1d26d8282e1ddf8a469b2e6b5db75a02 SHA-1: 776b379abaa951be9bc736b531647b592cd3f3a2 SHA-256: 8b7e0b6ba77da41e5e3615a6db1297f9502b1d0661c642d3b09616a4d6055d51
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 as malicious. A critical heuristic identified a large number of embedded external links, suggesting a link farm or redirection tactic. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs pointing to seemingly unrelated PDF files on the same domain indicates a likely SEO manipulation or phishing attempt to drive traffic to potentially compromised or malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8396

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.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/