Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae6827a09b587beb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2018-12-28 08:09:02 +03:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 5.0 for Word (via Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 (Windows))
MD5: 7154050560165280551ac5782640eacb SHA-1: 3ed756b9f16fb09771e0a0fcdddce3ac818ceb02 SHA-256: ae6827a09b587bebebdee2ed104e77e45b000c08d1811f523e874e2779761e5c
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and a critical heuristic for containing a large number of external links to PDF files hosted on gorillawalker.com. This suggests a link farm or distribution mechanism. The document body contains obfuscated text and embedded URLs, reinforcing the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9181

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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