Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d61b9753d8c2d49e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2018-11-30 20:34:08 +03:00 Authoring application: Arbortext Publishing Engine (via PDFlib+PDI 8.0.2p1 (Win32))
MD5: 448f0ef06e86269aab34fb853424d7a5 SHA-1: 65621841c945eea0fb0e4197d7c22984843a8df0 SHA-256: d61b9753d8c2d49e46460bbdb86b32e3a4fb9b0ca8c5beaf7ca3e33cfc59bcbf
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and a critical heuristic for containing a large number of external links. The heuristic specifically identified a 'link farm' pattern, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to host these links. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume and nature of the embedded URLs indicate a malicious intent, likely to manipulate search engine rankings or redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9171

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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