Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d08a5b40cde184bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.1 KB Created: 2019-11-23 19:52:05 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe PageMaker 7.0 (via Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 for Macintosh)
MD5: ea9a123ed7ea3bb619a03ab02e88ff03 SHA-1: 61a41db1b285e24451a57f58682a2e2dacb0b4f3 SHA-256: d08a5b40cde184bd34ea2c75e622665e95a20d6eaebe1eb6c28f4cee2fb263ed
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, forming a link farm hosted on www.gorillawalker.com. This heuristic firing suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to a vast collection of other PDFs. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine a more specific attack pattern or payload. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8529

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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