Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de90c81a688fb90d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.5 KB Created: 2019-12-14 04:37:30 +03:00 Authoring application: PFU ScanSnap Manager 4.2.14 (via Adobe PDF Scan Library 2.3)
MD5: 18bf22781863393e31ab2bf85234d23a SHA-1: b9a83dfb079839d953d8e9b375aa6fad8395592c SHA-256: de90c81a688fb90dd6ed319598c0e0a5dfcfc6a0514871adf0fe0d6546746f6b
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded external links, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links suggests a malicious intent, possibly for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide further clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8531

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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