Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bab978c2e15c9e0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2018-11-26 20:07:12 +03:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word (via Mac OS X 10.6.8 Quartz PDFContext)
MD5: 9fd96f0ab3945090ec8fa7da1e707a51 SHA-1: 4179304f5fc6282ea2bac7f3bdb6032b80d4b8aa SHA-256: bab978c2e15c9e0fa778f9f66201da1bd058affb7b56873713ecff41fc5c3171
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links pointing to external PDF files on the domain www.gorillawalker.com. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, preventing a deeper analysis of its specific intent beyond link distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8224

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://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
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    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/