Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d93cb013eb4a1ff1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2019-03-30 22:25:24 +03:00 Authoring application: FrameMaker 10.0.2 (via Acrobat Distiller 10.1.15 (Windows))
MD5: 0b8848017b0073d1888ff29d36e4912a SHA-1: a6a3c67882da3e6ec642a203c6f1ecb4cd9fbeb0 SHA-256: d93cb013eb4a1ff196d2808093e5ee3b95fa387df60fe97925c94618ec80272d
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with a high probability. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures, but the sheer volume of links suggests a malicious intent, possibly for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9181

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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