Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a925f8537959554f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2019-04-11 13:06:23 +03:00 Authoring application: Writer (via OpenOffice.org 1.1.2)
MD5: 6e37a9c71e1a76106a5cd284e7cbdb98 SHA-1: beb84e64dce136b9908c9807d47db4db0d5fdea0 SHA-256: a925f8537959554ff79f3f79adf7a2cb6b17803bbbe8d4bfc947b850bb5e4819
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files on the domain www.gorillawalker.com. This behavior is indicative of a PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic firing, suggesting the document is designed to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with a high probability. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine a more specific attack pattern beyond the link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8219

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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    • 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/
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    • 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/