Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5a3124a8a2115ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2019-03-17 06:51:57 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe InDesign CS5 (7.0.4) (via Adobe PDF Library 9.9)
MD5: da1fbec9d061644b6640c6408b67223b SHA-1: be50ccdef45de5decf0061acb477ee5332f44afc SHA-256: c5a3124a8a2115edb680c13b14224584d38b5a1fab2b4eed0cc21ce6810dec52
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 a method to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also indicated a high probability of maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links to PDFs on a single domain points towards an attempt to manipulate search engine results or host potentially harmful documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9181

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.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/schema#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/