Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7acbc28e20e03f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.3 KB Created: 2015-06-03 17:02:12 +03:00 Authoring application: DOMPDF
MD5: ea826723058a8f0a6aa36e6534b64161 SHA-1: c5063fc3aebcc60753f6e2fc4b8cfa943006aa65 SHA-256: a7acbc28e20e03f6809a7791a98e1ce5edc3885ed600a9acfe83e43bff16db4b
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body discusses Forex trading, which appears to be a lure to engage the user. The embedded URLs are likely part of this link farm, potentially leading to further malicious content or phishing attempts. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5320

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://kash.info/index.php?2015/zmagic.pdf&eqhgc=1&aspx=941
    • http://www.tstp.tv/index.php?2015/sliding.pdf&fjzfq=1&aspx=1135
    • http://kash.info/index.php?2015/zmagic.pdf&eqhgc=1&aspx=1916
    • http://www.prequine.com/index.php?2015/torcida.pdf&fcldj=1&aspx=1535
    • http://kash.info/index.php?2015/zmagic.pdf&eqhgc=1&aspx=1410
    • http://veranomusical.es/index.php?2015/booboodigital.pdf&ieycq=1&aspx=sitemap

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