Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 933a0111baaabe72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2018-11-14 08:16:33 +03:00 Authoring application: LaTeX with hyperref package (via pdfTeX-1.40.10)
MD5: 20b79d444867f6de8b7005d0db9d76da SHA-1: 5629fd8d7455b425eb8f1bd405f341d64b250f9e SHA-256: 933a0111baaabe72073ecdef3bc230a30e814e28de8244114d522b41f0033709
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a large number of external links, indicating a potential SEO manipulation or link farm strategy. The primary heuristic identified a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' with 32 external links, the first of which is http://www.gorillawalker.com/interpreting-clifford-geertz-cultural-investigation-in-the-social-sciences-cultural.pdf. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8872

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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