Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 461afe3954870e80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.0 KB Created: 2020-03-13 23:58:46 +00:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: abdee1a41fe82a3245c2f7092ab119be SHA-1: a538b75ee650c69916c78799440b8d0b0ed90393 SHA-256: 461afe3954870e8047c2181c1165170304bcba52b84156a8289d92366f6fa59f
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for containing a large number of external links, specifically to PDFs hosted on the domain 'ieuicufioao.myhome.cx'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. This suggests the PDF is likely part of an SEO poisoning or link farm scheme, designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages hosted on the identified domain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9787

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://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/8559550555559/Rose-and-the-Lost-Princess-Rose-2-by-Holly-Webb.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/8558558559554/Rose-Rose-1-by-Holly-Webb.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/2554551558550552/High-Spirited-Rose-Is-Rose-A-Collection-Of-Rose-Is-Rose-Comics-by-Pat-Brady.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/1554554559552557/The-Clayborne-Brides-One-Pink-Rose-One-White-Rose-One-Red-Rose-by-Julie-Garwood.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/2551556558554555/Summer-at-Rose-Island-White-Cliff-Bay-3-by-Holly-Martin.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/3557551553555558/American-Rose-A-Nation-Laid-Bare-The-Life-and-Times-of-Gypsy-Rose-Lee-by-Karen-Abbott.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/4558550557555550/Rose-and-Helena-Save-Christmas-Ghost-in-Law-6-5-Rose-Gardner-Mystery-6-4-by-Denise-Grover-Swank.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/1557556556550553/Death-of-a-Black-Rose-The-Rose-Trilogy-3-by-Tish-Thawer.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/2551552552550558/The-Lost-Trucker-by-Rose-Dewallvin.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/3556558555558552/The-Barbed-Rose-One-Rose-Trilogy-2-by-Gail-Dayton.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/3550557555557558/Rose-s-Heavenly-Cakes-by-Rose-Levy-Beranbaum.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/3555553552555554/The-New-Du-Rose-Matriarch-The-Hana-Du-Rose-Mysteries-4-by-K-T-Bowes.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/8551553551554/The-Compass-Rose-One-Rose-Trilogy-1-by-Gail-Dayton.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/4556559556554558/Tending-to-Rose-Rose-and-Thorne-2-by-Sean-Michael.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/1557551558554558/Red-Rose-Blood-Deadly-Rose-1-by-Michael-Kudo.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/3554553554555557/Lost-in-Apple-Grove-by-Elizabeth-Rose.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/1551554559559558/The-Book-of-Lost-Fragrances-Reincarnationist-4-by-M-J-Rose.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/4551555558553556/Lost-Bullet-Traces-2-by-Malcolm-Rose.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/5553553553552/A-Long-Lost-Fantasy-by-Ella-Rose-Carlos.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/1553550556554/Rose-Red-Rose-White-by-Marianne-Willman.pdf
    • http://ieuicufioao.myhome.cx/4558550557555550/Rose-and-Helena-Save-Christmas-Ghost-in-Law-6-5-Ros