Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95d816e9219ce53f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2019-04-07 18:02:35 +03:00 Authoring application: FrameMaker 12.0.4 (via Acrobat Distiller 11.0 (Windows))
MD5: 2e020410af823e0304e2e13b16133669 SHA-1: 8cb13d811e121f455f2a78eae3a4cd8b841398fa SHA-256: 95d816e9219ce53ff546488d9c79d39a463069ff7a0d5be8f6139702404c1389
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for containing a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO abuse. The ML classifier also indicated a high probability of maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of embedded URLs pointing to other PDF documents indicates a likely attempt to distribute content or manipulate search engine rankings, potentially as a lure for further malicious activity.

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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    • 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/
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    • 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/