Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad1cc26d7e819954…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2018-12-14 20:05:31 +03:00 Authoring application: AH Formatter V5.3 MR1 for Windows (via Acrobat Distiller 8.1.0 (Windows))
MD5: 7d14d220352ce9d6d75614c5a0bd6dd1 SHA-1: f77ea72535f0e7c30298b930342dbb700864af38 SHA-256: ad1cc26d7e819954e4efd4fbae0131d067de28033e626b64cede02455e164c89
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM', indicating a large number of embedded external links. The majority of these links point to PDF files hosted on 'gorillawalker.com'. This suggests the document is likely part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign, potentially designed to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

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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