Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af6eea28ce66212d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2019-03-16 12:58:43 +03:00 Authoring application: - (via Acrobat Distiller 5.0 (Windows))
MD5: 64b9d44ac34cb6cf2bdde0ec8b27ae11 SHA-1: 97f29baadd578ab0ae584624344a36e29c1130c2 SHA-256: af6eea28ce66212df96c00be27f15f01b48fa02e6b7044bd335380cd5aafe137
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URLs point to various book titles, suggesting a potential lure or SEO spamming technique. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated and truncated, limiting further analysis of the specific user-facing content.

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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