Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a636f4dd218e015c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2018-12-14 20:22:59 +03:00 Authoring application: FrameMaker 7.0 (via Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 (Windows); modified using iText® 5.5.4 ©2000-2014 iText Group NV (AGPL-version))
MD5: f98537ce49d0f133385b4fa1efd0eaa5 SHA-1: 5935a0e7397402671e4aaf2fa0880dab318cab49 SHA-256: a636f4dd218e015ca5e20f522c3a33cc8329ef5b7babaa2333036c7c128931a9
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged the document as malicious. The primary attack pattern appears to be a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content, with the dominant host being www.gorillawalker.com.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8872

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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