Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8de5e8d2d096efa1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2019-02-14 08:11:29 +03:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 7.0 for Excel (via Acrobat Distiller 7.0 (Windows))
MD5: ee8e152c169b00bba250a1da3656342a SHA-1: 7d71d599de112a8514a28c205feed37ac1a50874 SHA-256: 8de5e8d2d096efa1115547b1180c185f1b8d4848dc591bd7006c83a936de20fa
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or distribution mechanism. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links and the ML classification indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent, possibly to drive traffic or serve further malicious content. The attack pattern is likely related to SEO manipulation or a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9181

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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