Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2807c5a18f89558…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2018-11-14 08:48:43 +03:00 Authoring application: Pages (via Mac OS X 10.11.6 Quartz PDFContext)
MD5: 62e89b4f3cde0f3b6b416978ee998424 SHA-1: caf9f5146f7e93f680a9ff378c51839d008bc07a SHA-256: c2807c5a18f89558a9a4ba7834eb9772b5ed1bb7ed6f966641a7b88fdec302c3
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external websites, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged the document as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links suggests a malicious intent, possibly for SEO spam or to redirect users to phishing or malware hosting sites. The document body was heavily obfuscated and unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9027

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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