Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f71cb8620ee77c9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2018-11-14 11:32:07 +03:00 Authoring application: Word (via Mac OS X 10.7.5 Quartz PDFContext)
MD5: 9e50a7a7d36b260b14104861d3cad5e9 SHA-1: 0e67a087f88bb375c26b61a17e02f25c40863216 SHA-256: f71cb8620ee77c9f83846d85d582cb7c049ff383f3914424cc64592bad2e631e
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures, but the sheer volume of links suggests a malicious intent, possibly for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8640

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/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/schema#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/