Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d802974be268a38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB Created: 2019-05-03 20:47:52 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 8c23b81bfd83cb88f7d686b71777069b SHA-1: 1f0467a8380913de726134adc89d6bdfa51e0d94 SHA-256: 2d802974be268a38c9f8e275f78723f1ecf63c288d8d0fbd924fedb5963ad076
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. These links point to external PDF files hosted on a suspicious domain, suggesting a tactic to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO poisoning. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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/3f213f219f217f216f217/The-Adventures-of-Lando-Calrissian-Star-Wars-The-Adventures-of-Lando-Calrissian-1-3-by-L-Neil-Smith.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f210f213f217f215f217f213/Star-Wars-Sonderband-90---Lando-by-Charles-Soule.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/5f218f218f214f217f219/Star-Wars-Clone-Wars-Adventures-Vol-5-by-W-Haden-Blackman.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/4f212f214f217f216f217/Star-Wars-From-the-Adventures-of-Luke-Skywalker-by-George-Lucas.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/7f214f219f216f211f218/Star-Wars-Adventures-2-Better-the-Devil-You-Know-Part-2-by-Cavan-Scott.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f213f219f217f216f218/Lando-by-Charles-Soule.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/5f212f211f210f216f213/Broken-Dignity-by-Michael-J-Lando.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f211f219f215f213f216f219/Amor-Arroba-Desierto-by-Shulamit-Lando.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/6f216f211f217f211f213/Star-Wars-Chevaliers-de-l-ancienne-r-publique-T08-D-mon-Star-Wars-Knights-of-the-Old-Republic-9-by-John-Jackson-Miller.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/6f216f211f217f211f216/Star-Wars-Chevaliers-de-l-ancienne-r-publique-T07-La-Destructrice-Star-Wars-Knights-of-the-Old-Republic-8-by-John-Jackson-Miller.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f219f213f217f219f215/Star-Wars-Roleplaying-Game-Saga-Edition-Core-Rulebook-Star-Wars-RPG-D20-by-Christopher-Perkins.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f215f212f216f210f216/Lady-Elinor-s-Wicked-Adventures-Victorian-Adventures-1-by-Lillian-Marek.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f219f216f215f213f213/The-Adventures-of-Prince-Camar-and-Princess-Badoura-Arabian-Nights-Adventures-1-by-Kelley-Townley.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f210f219f211f215f212f218/The-Adventures-of-Sir-Launcelot-Greaves-and-the-Adventures-of-an-Atom-by-Tobias-Smollett.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/2f212f213f214f212f211/Spock-Must-Die-Star-Trek-Adventures-1-by-James-Blish.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f213f219f217f211f210/Star-Wars-Vol-2-Showdown-on-the-Smuggler-s-Moon-Star-Wars-2-by-Jason-Aaron.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/2f216f216f210f214f210/The-Price-of-the-Phoenix-Star-Trek-Adventures-4-by-Sondra-Marshak.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/7f219f218f210f212f219/Starlight-Nights-The-Adventures-of-a-Star-Gazer-by-Leslie-C-Peltier.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f219f212f215/Star-Wars-Vol-1-Skywalker-Strikes-Star-Wars-1-by-Jason-Aaron.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f213f219f217f214f212/Star-Wars-Vol-4-Last-Flight-of-the-Harbinger-Star-Wars-4-by-Jason-Aaron.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/6f216f211f217f211f213/Star-Wars-Chevaliers-de-l-ancienne-