Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9f6898e559d284c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2018-11-23 08:04:52 +03:00 Authoring application: QuarkXPress(R) 7.01
MD5: 034749fdd80d2c9d73bdf79b28de69c9 SHA-1: 41bca2f18d1e05917660e39e8616fb9575bf7290 SHA-256: e9f6898e559d284c15392a585b14aa171edbaf9a9e252749561bec5f097eda5d
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded URLs pointing to other PDF documents hosted on the same domain, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. This suggests a link farm or a distribution mechanism for potentially malicious content. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic further supports the malicious nature of the file. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

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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