Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a99a83d0839750ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2019-04-10 12:10:10 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe PageMaker 7.0 (via Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 (Windows))
MD5: 263c1410de9d2d9707bc97f066e37eb9 SHA-1: 49c95ee0f01307f37e57daf4c0305e69b447637f SHA-256: a99a83d0839750ecb2e7384103cc25a1557cb4cc60cb797f1dea739b6a299234
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files on the domain 'gorillawalker.com'. This heuristic firing, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, indicates a potential attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through a link farm. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9005

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/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • 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/