MALICIOUS
90
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which are dynamically generated and appear to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The document body, while containing seemingly innocuous text about investment options, also embeds these URLs, suggesting a social engineering tactic to trick users into clicking them. The primary heuristic firing indicates a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' which strongly suggests the document's purpose is to drive traffic to external, potentially malicious, sites.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5320
Heuristics 2
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Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARMSmall 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.
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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.nibl.co.nz/index.php?2015/decision.pdf&angzv=1&aspx=2257
- http://phcccolorado.org/index.php?2015/arabtera.pdf&effpp=1&aspx=2083
- http://www.kbb-gesellschaft.de/index.php?2015/ergoarena.pdf&urggv=1&aspx=1808
- http://www.kbb-gesellschaft.de/index.php?2015/ergoarena.pdf&urggv=1&aspx=1419
- http://www.nibl.co.nz/index.php?2015/decision.pdf&angzv=1&aspx=1400
- http://dyrlaegecentret.dk/index.php?2015/typestitch.pdf&hjhle=1&aspx=sitemap
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