Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee8b28480f423c5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2019-02-14 08:12:51 +03:00 Authoring application: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2 (via Mac OS X 10.8.4 Quartz PDFContext)
MD5: 6e8017eb56535926a57845599d272cb9 SHA-1: 78bd986c25c46542d38c75ac71972c9331457d1b SHA-256: ee8b28480f423c5f452fc4276a064b07a4eba51b65c1025f8ba349cfb7eebe9a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF documents, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. These links all point to the same domain, suggesting a coordinated effort to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact user-facing lure. The primary attack pattern observed is the distribution of numerous external links.

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://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
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    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/
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    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/