Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c16da72a56734352…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.5 KB Created: 2019-08-03 20:42:20 +03:00 Authoring application: CorelDRAW X5 (via Corel PDF Engine Version 15.0.0.486)
MD5: 261239dc1eb4b407817ce9ba2612fef3 SHA-1: 0540cc6c996cfbda88e68d3a9409f21a0028662a SHA-256: c16da72a567343522c301746c515de4fdbaabc3cd1463213b5640e9cacf0ce77
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF documents, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to a website hosting numerous PDF files, likely as a form of SEO abuse or to distribute potentially malicious content indirectly.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8196

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/extension/
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    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/