Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b77511df86fe8ef0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2018-12-14 20:13:47 +03:00 Authoring application: FrameMaker 7.1 (via Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows))
MD5: 72c1cf04604a56acfab22cd270046e7a SHA-1: 0912a44eec783d0f49fe5a751ab002dc9268b477 SHA-256: b77511df86fe8ef074726b8b77e487765d66bb82f01671ac36fdc47b6b1ac9b4
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a large number of external links, many of which appear to be SEO-optimized book titles. This suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear intent beyond the presence of these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8173

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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