Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bba3f47aaeae09b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.0 KB Created: 2019-05-07 09:46:05 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: b29783f4e5efc6ea7752f89df7395acb SHA-1: 2da01667f785c94bf277e9801c856234b673207b SHA-256: 2bba3f47aaeae09b769fcf828e2feaff15f1d5252d5521c0c5f068f96bee227f
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. While most of these URLs were classified as benign, the sheer volume and the nature of the heuristic suggest a malicious intent, possibly for SEO poisoning or to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9891

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/1090094099095097091/Danger-at-Come-alive-Cottage-Come-alive-Cottage-2-by-Wendy-Unsworth.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090094099095096094/Return-to-Rose-Cottage-The-Laws-of-Attraction-For-the-Love-of-Pete-Rose-Cottage-Sisters-3-4-by-Sherryl-Woods.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091096099099096090/Alive-Alive-O-Flann-O-Brien-s-at-Swim-Two-Birds-the-Appraisal-Series-by-Rudiger-Imhof.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2090099097091091/History-Alive-The-Ancient-World-by-Wendy-Frey.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090096097098095090/Spring-at-The-Cosy-Cottage-Cafe-The-Cosy-Cottage-Cafe-4-by-Rachel-Griffiths.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2099090096095/Blackened-Cottage-by-A-E-Richards.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7090091098096/A-Cottage-by-the-Sea-by-Ciji-Ware.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7097094090096/A-Cottage-by-the-Sea-by-Carole-Matthews.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3095096095098097/The-Cottage-by-Gerri-Hill.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7091097098099/The-Cottage-in-the-Woods-by-Katherine-Coville.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9098097094096/The-Summer-Cottage-by-Susan-Kietzman.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4093093098091094/The-Cottage-Next-Door-by-Natasha-Moore.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2094094090097098/Rose-Cottage-by-Mary-Stewart.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4090094096099096/Poet-s-Cottage-by-Josephine-Pennicott.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2090090099099096/The-Cottage-in-the-Woods-by-Lucy-Felthouse.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2092095090091098/The-Christmas-Cottage-Ever-After-by-Samantha-Chase.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091090097095/Lakeside-Cottage-by-Susan-Wiggs.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9097096092094096/The-Honeymoon-Cottage-Pajaro-Bay-1-by-Barbara-Cool-Lee.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6096094098097098/English-Cottage-Gardens-by-Edward-Hyams.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090094099094093092/The-Cottage-At-Glass-Beach-by-Heather-Barbieri.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7097094090096/A-Cottage-by-the-Sea-by-Car