Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c386410407d03719…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.7 KB Created: 2015-06-04 18:31:51 +04:00 Authoring application: DOMPDF First seen: 2015-06-09
MD5: 1b69996550e82ecde7a17fa5acab61b0 SHA-1: 7d25d1319bdbd37938f5018e5b5a7685f3898fa0 SHA-256: c386410407d037190a9da37f0d61a48204c59713718e509816d6d95f883b1508
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, all related to binary options trading. The ML classifier flagged the document as malicious, and the presence of external URIs suggests a redirection to a potentially malicious site. The document body reinforces this by containing text related to financial trading, likely serving as a lure to encourage users to click the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5034

Heuristics 2

  • PDF carries a PHP-gateway SEO-spam PDF link farm medium PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains four or more clickable links whose target is a `.php` gateway with a multi-word search-PHRASE document slug embedded after it (e.g. 'index.php?.../binary+options+trading+nz.pdf' or 'pdf.php/cialis-dosage-side-effects.pdf'). Legitimate PHP-served documents use a filename or numeric id, not a search-query phrase, so this is the generated SEO link-farm shape — pharma / binary-options / 'free download' spam that ranks for queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.
    URL http://pit-service.com.ua/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/playhouse/binary+options+10+minimum+deposit.pdf&hochy=1&news=2718 In PDF document text
    • http://www.gopelion.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/mataam/cfd+binary+options.pdf&iiktw=2&news=2218In PDF document text
    • http://www.mafiaracing.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/marketleader/binary+signals.pdf&psgtl=3&news=1850In PDF document text
    • http://server-minecraft.pl/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/funlandia/binary+trading+etrade.pdf&glonz=1&news=74In PDF document text
    • http://futureu.com.ua/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/elbaixcat/binary+option+yahoo.pdf&aiaey=1&news=1927In PDF document text
    • http://chasingfiber.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/vaicomtudo/binary+brokers+canada.pdf&bjydv=1&news=995In PDF document text
    • http://www.supermaraton.eu/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/housepop/binaryoptionstradingguide.com.pdf&owutp=1&news=sitemapIn PDF document text