Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f277ac4f93e6ace2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2018-12-07 18:29:52 +03:00 Authoring application: AH XSL Formatter V6.1 MR1 for Linux64 : 6.1.6.12100 (via Antenna House PDF Output Library 6.1.420 (Linux64); modified using iText 2.1.7 by 1T3XT)
MD5: 646247d1c501624c07293ded9e2575d3 SHA-1: d3912547a0b27c61d1c9b4a63ffa37ad08e1a499 SHA-256: f277ac4f93e6ace223f62ece75137fbf61386f3bb93f88ff44cf5666de3aeb62
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. While the document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, the presence of numerous links to external PDF files suggests a malicious intent, possibly for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to further malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8469

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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