Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99f5901ef5897027…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2018-11-30 20:34:24 +03:00 Authoring application: dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (via GPL Ghostscript 8.61)
MD5: 1097b42f934e6366e71c63decdca310a SHA-1: 486491b8c132e5305895fd4ecc649e02b4554215 SHA-256: 99f5901ef5897027b733fa9b5052d738d955047d60a25efaedf863f5f23c16da
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external websites, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous links suggests a campaign focused on driving traffic to these external resources, potentially for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9171

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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