Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cfcba2016baffe2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2018-11-23 20:30:08 +03:00 Authoring application: LaTeX with hyperref and pdfscreen (via Mac OS X 10.5.7 Quartz PDFContext)
MD5: 6beeb5f890637fd811d10c1fdddcaed6 SHA-1: e8346dc8c1c34e4646bd50e3f26b3b3e221adeee SHA-256: 9cfcba2016baffe27e03502a97def74a4f114accc2ba980ed1fd48d55b281f1b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a link farm, indicating a large number of embedded external URLs. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to PDFs on 'gorillawalker.com' suggests a tactic to manipulate search engine results or to distribute further malicious content disguised as legitimate documents. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
    URL http://www.gorillawalker.com/complete-directory-for-people-with-disabilities.pdf
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    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/the-philosophy-of-conspiracy-theories.pdf
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    • http://www.gorillawalker.com/corinthians-1-and-2-enhanced-e-book-edition-il
    • 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/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • 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/