Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e88083fb56886cac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.7 KB Created: 2015-06-04 18:32:33 +04:00 Authoring application: DOMPDF First seen: 2015-06-09
MD5: eeb23a6eb82983a2e4807b9f9a1f0fa8 SHA-1: 38b385a54d63095238fe0f1cc694e688c8f53c3c SHA-256: e88083fb56886cacb8ef20aaeb936b088ec661960cab9768dfc9bf6666ec66e9
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs related to binary options trading. The ML classifier flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of external URIs further supports a malicious intent. The document body, though truncated, also contains references to binary options trading and includes several of the same URLs. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to click these links, likely leading to a phishing or scam operation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5034

Heuristics 2

  • PDF carries a PHP-gateway SEO-spam PDF link farm medium PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains four or more clickable links whose target is a `.php` gateway with a multi-word search-PHRASE document slug embedded after it (e.g. 'index.php?.../binary+options+trading+nz.pdf' or 'pdf.php/cialis-dosage-side-effects.pdf'). Legitimate PHP-served documents use a filename or numeric id, not a search-query phrase, so this is the generated SEO link-farm shape — pharma / binary-options / 'free download' spam that ranks for queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.
    URL http://emptymindsradio.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/travelersdaily/binary+option+data.pdf&kpqoo=2&news=1288 In PDF document text
    • http://adafilmleri.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/hamile/binary+option+blog.pdf&wfega=1&news=1800In PDF document text
    • http://www.arawakhotelstcroix.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/newstime/what+is+a+binary+options+trading+system.pdf&jduqg=3&news=778In PDF document text
    • http://www.narcisoevenere.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/supportpress/synthetic+binary+option.pdf&lszpa=1&news=1439In PDF document text
    • http://studio89.fr/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/simplepress/ubinary+broker+review.pdf&kfiny=2&news=701In PDF document text
    • http://www.yakiscupcakes.com/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/goldenwestcafe/binary+option+org.pdf&woeax=1&news=2489In PDF document text
    • http://www.supermaraton.eu/index.php?wiki/04/06/2015/housepop/binaryoptionstradingguide.com.pdf&owutp=1&news=sitemapIn PDF document text