Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9cb71c6996b791b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2019-09-15 18:29:46 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe InDesign CS4 (6.0.6) (via Mac OS X 10.9.1 Quartz PDFContext)
MD5: 38921fda0e26bb6d6da6fd24fc25abf8 SHA-1: 13c328a82a6d26e938834e31e6217ce8e3df4774 SHA-256: f9cb71c6996b791b0c21180384367c9fa0600b59c4a4df3b2c4740c3504c6c64
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for containing a mass external link farm, with 32 links pointing to PDFs on the same domain. The ML classifier also indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, preventing analysis of its direct content. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to a large number of external URLs, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8529

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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