Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d40df15a88f2e86a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2019-03-17 12:31:01 +03:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0 (via Acrobat Distiller 4.0 for Windows)
MD5: ae0ca20c5dc343d3d9add772f1d6d53d SHA-1: fa5b4caa089023b23dcba18aa51926017acc297a SHA-256: d40df15a88f2e86aa24a0c4272a52693be1caabc67fd99a959c523fd1965f7a7
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which appear to be SEO-optimized for book titles, suggesting a link farm or content-loading mechanism. The heuristic 'SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE' strongly indicates the document's purpose is to trick users into paying fees for a non-existent prize or parcel. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is designed to host numerous links to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9181

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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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