Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff902703aa2297eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2018-11-14 08:37:14 +03:00 Authoring application: PDFCreator Version 0.9.8 (via GPL Ghostscript 8.64)
MD5: f7382921cf34e9fea4bb3a1e11a62fa1 SHA-1: 1146efdb6ee114e5eed613f19273a38f14bf880c SHA-256: ff902703aa2297eb95f601b25215c45a53d53a16bf47e6faad55fe1a797b6d14
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF documents, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures. The primary attack pattern appears to be a link farm designed to drive traffic to external content, potentially for SEO manipulation or to host malicious payloads indirectly.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9171

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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