Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a898ad879810a7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

21.3 KB Created: 2019-05-01 17:59:30 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 75ddeaf79d757249961d791736692244 SHA-1: f5cd9b7745058bea9645d313b1d55d741df4caa3 SHA-256: 0a898ad879810a7ece43a40e1146b74b7af55b75b49c1f2931e8fa81b9e135ee
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to a domain that appears to be hosting a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates this is a deliberate attempt to generate traffic or distribute content via a large number of links. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the suspicious nature of the embedded URLs. The primary attack pattern observed is the distribution of numerous external links, likely intended to lead users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9925

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.
    URL http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/2f216f218f218f212f212/The-Year-of-Eating-Dangerously-A-Global-Adventure-in-Search-of-Culinary-Extremes-by-Tom-Parker-Bowles.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f213f218f216f218f217/The-Year-of-Eating-Dangerously-A-Global-Adventure-in-Search-of-Culinary-Extremes-by-Tom-Parker-Bowles.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/7f219f213f218f217f214/Where-Am-I-Eating-An-Adventure-Through-the-Global-Food-Economy-by-Kelsey-Timmerman.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/2f218f210f212f213f215/The-Year-of-Living-Dangerously-by-Christopher-J-Koch.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f214f219f214f215f213/The-Year-of-Living-Dangerously-by-Christopher-J-Koch.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f211f210f216f217f216/The-Art-of-Eating-through-the-Zombie-Apocalypse-A-Cookbook-and-Culinary-Survival-Guide-by-Lauren-Wilson.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/6f212f218f214f217f213/The-Duchess-Camilla-Parker-Bowles-and-the-Love-Affair-That-Rocked-the-Crown-by-Penny-Junor.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f211f216f212f215f215f216/The-Courage-of-Hopelessness-Chronicles-of-a-Year-of-Acting-Dangerously-by-Slavoj-i-ek.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f219f216f213f213f217/Cinderella-s-Secret-Agent-A-Year-Of-Loving-Dangerously-11-by-Ingrid-Weaver.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f215f214f218f210f214/The-Year-of-Reading-Dangerously-How-Fifty-Great-Books-Saved-My-Life-by-Andy-Miller.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/2f216f218f210f217f217/Whipping-Boy-The-Forty-Year-Search-for-My-Twelve-Year-Old-Bully-by-Allen-Kurzweil.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/2f210f217f218f219f213/The-100-Mile-Diet-A-Year-of-Local-Eating-by-Alisa-Smith.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f211f218f211f218f217/The-100-Mile-Diet-A-Year-of-Local-Eating-by-Alisa-Smith.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/4f219f214f214f216f216/In-Pursuit-of-Giants-One-Man-s-Global-Search-for-the-Last-of-the-Great-Fish-by-Matt-Rigney.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/6f210f215f212f216f212/Renaissance-Food-from-Rabelais-to-Shakespeare-Culinary-Readings-and-Culinary-Histories-by-Joan-Fitzpatrick.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/2f215f218f218f214f215/The-Humor-Code-A-Global-Search-for-What-Makes-Things-Funny-by-Peter-McGraw.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/4f219f212f212f214/Secret-Speakers-and-the-Search-for-Selador-s-Gate-by-KareyLyn-Parker-K-S-R-Kingworth-.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/5f210f215f216f215f213/Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-106-In-Search-of-Sanity-by-F-Wesley-Schneider.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f218f214f212f211f215/Japanland-A-Year-in-Search-of-Wa-by-Karin-Muller.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f218f213f213f216f210/In-Search-of-the-Lost-Taste-A-Vegan-Adventure-Cookbook-by-Joshua-Ploeg.pdf