Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 925d2c9b9038d4b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.1 KB Created: 2020-01-17 19:18:53 +03:00 Authoring application: ScanSnap Manager (via Acrobat Distiller 10.1.7 (Windows))
MD5: 46aa42d887767a1548213141fe2fb3df SHA-1: 18a386794a8973645327c926c361c70773f4231c SHA-256: 925d2c9b9038d4b445d617fc42a9189df7fd7e8f8be4d09d0f4d0ff71a56faf0
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and a critical heuristic for containing a large number of external links. These links, primarily pointing to PDF files on www.gorillawalker.com, suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results or to distribute a large volume of content, potentially malicious. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual clues about its intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8529

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.gorillawalker.com/humedales-h-bitats-h-medos-ciencia-asombrosa-ecosistemas-spanish-edition.pdf
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    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/muhammad-at-mecca.pdf
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    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/schema#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/