Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a2ee880c113cbef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.3 KB Created: 2019-05-01 17:15:13 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: f5d9b5fe1577d6be2ed1e0f83b85184b SHA-1: 2ad1db534e9aa47c557bc7f55427e315facb5d0c SHA-256: 2a2ee880c113cbef15cd44ee7da7a27232ad33e399ddf0dce47ff71b6f3864ff
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links pointing to external PDF files hosted on the loaminoo.linkpc.net domain. This technique is often used to distribute malicious content or to engage in SEO poisoning to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9102

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://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4097091095093099/Slide-Slide-1-by-Jill-Hathaway.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091091093097093/Slide-Slide-1-by-Jill-Hathaway.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5091096096097092/Slide-The-Corner-by-Fleur-Beale.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3098093091097096/A-Long-Hot-Delicious-Slide-by-H-C-Brown.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4093097092097097/Slide-Rule-by-Nevil-Shute.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8091092099095093/Slide-or-Die-Drift-X-1-by-Todd-Strasser.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091096097099099/Hotblood-House-of-Slide-1-by-Juliann-Whicker.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3090093096095092/Hotblood-House-of-Slide-1-by-Juliann-Whicker.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4094091096093091/Slide-The-Scales-From-My-Eyes-by-Timothy-Maguire.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9097090098094095/Blues-Slide-Gitarre-lernen-by-Dirk-Hagemann.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3093091092096098/Slip-and-Slide-Death-and-Destruction-3-by-Patricia-Logan.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9095095093098095/A-Long-Walk-Up-the-Water-Slide-Neal-Carey-4-by-Don-Winslow.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5091090090094092/Haywire-Hearts-and-Slide-Trombones-Stories-by-Dwight-Yates-by-Dwight-Yates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7093093098094097/Lady-Hathaway-s-Indecent-Proposal-Hathaway-Heirs-1-by-Suzanna-Medeiros.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2094094091097092/Jill-s-Riding-Club-Jill-s-Ponies-5-by-Ruby-Ferguson.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2094094091097099/Jill-s-Pony-Trek-Jill-s-Ponies-9-by-Ruby-Ferguson.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3098091094095091/When-Two-Rivers-Meet-by-Deborah-M-Hathaway.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2091098096096099/Forever-Knight-These-Our-Revels-by-Ann-Hathaway-Nayne.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2091093096098095/Dark-of-the-West-Glass-Alliance-1-by-Joanna-Hathaway.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3097095098099093/Murder-Offstage-Posey-Parker-Mystery-1-by-L-B-Hathaway.pdf