Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98f73b621d18749a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.5 KB Created: 2020-03-12 04:25:10 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe InDesign CS5 (7.0.3) (via Adobe PDF Library 9.9)
MD5: 00147f9ddd333fcd32231be335ecd450 SHA-1: 91d58b445232ebfe2337fe5802b71025a74cf87a SHA-256: 98f73b621d18749a913c7629c5a5ec4b292e535171c887613784c30e87146fcb
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. While no scripts were extracted, the ML classifier and the presence of numerous links suggest a malicious intent, possibly for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to phishing or malware sites. The SE_CALLBACK_LURE heuristic also indicates a potential phishing or scam pretext, although the document body itself is heavily obfuscated and unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8263

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns
  • 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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