Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed896389f388e017…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2018-11-30 20:35:15 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe InDesign CS4 (6.0.4) (via Adobe PDF Library 9.0)
MD5: e9e432993f2d75483842794b01020d20 SHA-1: 55511d366380a607cbff232ebf825cc44d92ecef SHA-256: ed896389f388e017919f9e68818a73c1cb796b900bb579e177b81dc0d4b4aa0e
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a large number of embedded URLs, indicating a potential link farm or distribution mechanism. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' specifically calls out the mass external PDF link farm. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links suggests a malicious intent to redirect users or manipulate search engine results.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8600

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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    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
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    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/