Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1eea2f91fe8c7230…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.6 KB Created: 2019-04-30 08:48:32 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 2b09b26d73fe77e8d174500ce502f80f SHA-1: 3160dfc1777994d20f609d3d10e518886b83e088 SHA-256: 1eea2f91fe8c7230285f71f763acc447df6c32ddf16eae55f2ed14eb038b6cc9
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded external links, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged the document as malicious with high confidence. While the document body is heavily obfuscated, the presence of numerous links suggests a tactic to drive traffic to external sites, potentially for SEO manipulation or to serve further malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9776

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://muicuiu.dumb1.com/7a01a08a05a08a06/My-Conference-Can-Beat-Your-Conference-Why-the-SEC-Still-Rules-College-Football-by-Paul-Finebaum.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/2a04a08a00a08a06/My-Conference-Can-Beat-Up-Your-Conference-Why-the-SEC-Rules-College-Football-by-Paul-Finebaum.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/7a01a08a06a02a03/The-Best-of-Women-s-Conference-Selected-Talks-from-25-Years-of-Women-s-Conference-by-Brigham-Young-University.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/6a09a06a00a05a04/Appropriate-Care-for-the-Elderly-Some-Problems-Conference-Held-on-22nd-October-1980-in-the-Hall-of-the-Royal-College-of-Physicians-of-Edinburgh-by-J-M-G-Wilson.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/1a00a05a05a07a02a09/Smart-Sensing-and-Context-5th-European-Conference-EuroSSC-2010-Passau-Germany-November-14-16-2010-Proceedings-by-Paul-Lukowicz.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/9a04a03a01a03a07/Football-Outsiders-Almanac-2010-The-Essential-Guide-to-the-2010-NFL-and-College-Football-Seasons-by-Aaron-Schatz.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/9a04a03a01a03a06/Football-Outsiders-Almanac-2009-The-Essential-Guide-To-The-2009-Nfl-And-College-Football-Seasons-by-Aaron-Schatz.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/9a04a03a01a04a08/Football-Outsiders-Almanac-2015-The-Essential-Guide-to-the-2015-NFL-and-College-Football-Seasons-by-Aaron-Schatz.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/7a01a08a06a04a02/Private-Conference-by-Katrina-Millings.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/5a06a06a02a03a05/La-Conf-rence-des-oiseaux-by-Attar-of-Nishapur.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/3a02a03a01a03a01/Conference-Classics-vol-1-by-Thomas-S-Monson.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/3a02a03a01a03a09/Conference-Classics-vol-2-by-Thomas-S-Monson.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/7a01a08a05a09a03/Conference-With-the-Boss-by-Sierra-Summers.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/7a01a08a05a09a09/The-Jupiter-Saturn-Conference-Lectures-by-Liz-Greene.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/7a01a08a05a08a07/Conference-Interpreting-Explained-by-Roderick-Jones.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/9a07a09a09a09/The-Conference-of-the-Birds-by-Rabiah-York-Lumbard.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/7a01a08a05a07a05/Murder-at-the-Library-Conference-by-Stephen-Leary.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/6a03a02a04a02a04/The-Participants-The-Men-of-the-Wannsee-Conference-by-Hans-Christian-Jasch.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/7a01a08a05a07a04/Conference-At-Cold-Comfort-Farm-by-Stella-Gibbons.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/4a09a02a06a07a00/Unsportsmanlike-Conduct-College-Football-and-the-Politics-of-Rape-by-Jessica-Luther.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/6a09a06a00a05a04/Appropriate-Care-for-the-Elderly-Some-Problems-Conference-Held-on-22nd-

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