Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f942105574233b29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2018-11-14 11:20:40 +03:00 Authoring application: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2 (via iText 2.1.7 by 1T3XT)
MD5: ad738ea295c852b21c87868cbcbc4234 SHA-1: 78eb0512ac5c4f80bcbebd47ef3ad54fed6911fe SHA-256: f942105574233b29dcc6e2ec052cd7a3ce89e2ad3db004b4efcda13066b27418
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF documents hosted on the domain 'gorillawalker.com'. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious payloads. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with a high probability. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact final payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8634

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/