Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afb5ebf5029029f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.2 KB Created: 2019-08-10 08:01:47 +03:00 Authoring application: - (via Foxit Phantom Printer Version 3.0.3.0804)
MD5: 161365e3f2a503519e56b81a779f1375 SHA-1: 66e6ee3b12689476e5f2c30105ccc029298b68c5 SHA-256: afb5ebf5029029f8386e99cb00399c9670777484b4817db3e7b12344a85f9846
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. This suggests a tactic to manipulate search engine results or to distribute a large volume of content, potentially malicious. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic further supports the malicious nature of the file. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8215

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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