Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eebc8aef0ddeb5fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2018-12-15 20:48:02 +03:00 Authoring application: QuarkXPress: pictwpstops filter 1.0 (via Acrobat Distiller 6.0 for Macintosh)
MD5: 71288d849e3ecd9234fbb95bdfecf311 SHA-1: 1f19e7bf718243e8d6123cd799125dab28bb06e9 SHA-256: eebc8aef0ddeb5fbf136ef5b8193dc4e6617e7845096d175d3675732ff7d58fa
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged for containing a large number of external links, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The ML classifier also indicated a high probability of maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links suggests a coordinated effort to distribute or promote content, potentially malicious, through a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9171

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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