Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf22620be7e25b91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2018-11-14 08:18:30 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe InDesign CC (Macintosh) (via Adobe PDF Library 11.0)
MD5: ab0c4b685e36be0d19b6f6083c2e6f31 SHA-1: 69524efe24cbf2dd6fbb98fa8052b1c2925f165f SHA-256: cf22620be7e25b915dc1b51c741cad1ea735b7b4d10aba24c2f26bb12abe07ca
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded external URLs, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links suggests a malicious intent, possibly for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malware. The document body was heavily obfuscated and unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8872

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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