Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e78eedf6ba0bd2dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2018-11-30 20:24:45 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe InDesign CS4 (6.0) (via Adobe PDF Library 9.0)
MD5: 3fc9508b176da7779865d8f05357761f SHA-1: 277d504011c8530144bdde7a342c772e8ed6206d SHA-256: e78eedf6ba0bd2dd5d1a0fd3c25f2d6e1e8af71b48a8ab4bbcc7048f10da7b16
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. 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 spam or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8224

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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