Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b94efdf6921c1c36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2018-11-30 20:23:33 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe InDesign CS3 (5.0) (via Adobe PDF Library 8.0)
MD5: e876a49ea934edc972f737e2a8c77045 SHA-1: 61a53b0c10da2f61041a80895277b52c5c521a75 SHA-256: b94efdf6921c1c3631cc6a3e08e8787c3963fd76e0780f244cc938eedbd8ad17
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for containing a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier also indicated a high probability of maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of embedded URLs points towards a malicious intent, possibly to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The document body was not sufficiently readable to determine a specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8709

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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    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/