Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7ea4e018b98d3b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2018-12-15 20:18:23 +03:00 Authoring application: Word (via Mac OS X 10.8.4 Quartz PDFContext)
MD5: 9073005468ece35b072b6d2eb5af7d88 SHA-1: 3dedc765bf99f7d8e1dd2f5dd67c6b21eb34d376 SHA-256: a7ea4e018b98d3b47bba1e7b4671cc1939ec26099f43cfa91249fcc61c921278
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs pointing to a single domain, suggesting a coordinated effort to redirect users. The primary attack pattern appears to be a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8439

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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