Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c68c8f299d545e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2018-12-14 20:37:58 +03:00 Authoring application: Microsoft® Word 2016
MD5: f732aec0f8c4d3968b4a21a7b3365d8a SHA-1: f230631fd6d5d279ce4e4a994ae85631d9d26de9 SHA-256: 8c68c8f299d545e0161a93602bddb922428091cd1f978c018f4b0e10ce083114
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact payload or intent beyond linking to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9016

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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