Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa76ca99aa1218e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.2 KB Created: 2019-11-10 05:17:52 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe PageMaker 7.0 (via Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 (Windows))
MD5: f7817e1267464f319704c311c5a7e38c SHA-1: 9c5fd93163cb5ce697928f759ea98f5c6f4b6ea6 SHA-256: fa76ca99aa1218e683731f0e05963b83b7681993d9cc1dc78720bbf77c4a5e97
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. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS classifier also flagged the document with high confidence. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links suggests a malicious intent, possibly for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The primary IOCs are the numerous URLs embedded within the document.

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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    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
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    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/