Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bc101c046fa24b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.1 KB Created: 2020-01-17 19:19:13 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe PageMaker 6.5 (via Acrobat Distiller 5.0 (Windows))
MD5: cb266dad626e2ac94d3836e52cc69195 SHA-1: f6b795676fba1166b0d40a6a9492c6501849211f SHA-256: 9bc101c046fa24b5e86bc902d95b6bba3a7df4173cefb44b85bdbb147e7a471a
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a critical heuristic for containing a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or a method to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier also indicated a high probability of maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of embedded URLs points towards a malicious intent, likely related to SEO manipulation or hosting malicious documents. The document body was unreadable, preventing further analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8447

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/
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