Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2577ffe4abc7e9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2018-12-15 20:19:50 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe PageMaker 7.0 (via Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 for Macintosh)
MD5: 4d6a5706e087d865101590635c26a5c8 SHA-1: 5cdfb3b71749e2da3f039ecfe759b2df73a7a26a SHA-256: d2577ffe4abc7e9a40b2ab2c2a744782ee7383b22567c07c765bbf0c9d603551
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a significant number of embedded external links, indicating a potential SEO manipulation or content distribution scheme. The primary attack pattern observed is the creation of a link farm, likely to boost search engine rankings for the linked content or to serve as a distribution point for further malicious activity. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8439

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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