Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a83ea1da43f36fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.0 KB Created: 2019-04-30 04:39:19 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: bddcb262f9178b88eeac889664c2c973 SHA-1: acef60e8154315aceb152c1b5de9009433c3b022 SHA-256: 4a83ea1da43f36fcab2d0744089ed753b913320e1132bdf88cf2175756b889c4
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external URLs, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest a delivery mechanism for potentially harmful content hosted externally.

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/1090095099094094095/Artemis-Fowl-Pack-8-books-RRP-55-92-Artemis-Fowl-Time-Paradox-Atlantis-Complex-Last-Guardian-Opal-Deception-Arctic-Incident-Eternity-Code-Lost-Colony-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5090091095093092/Artemis-Fowl-and-the-Time-Paradox-Artemis-Fowl-6-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1094091096098096/Artemis-Fowl-and-the-Time-Paradox-Artemis-Fowl-6-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8094094099092099/The-Time-Paradox-Artemis-Fowl-6-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3099091091095093/The-Time-Paradox-Artemis-Fowl-6-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2097092097095098/The-Time-Paradox-Artemis-Fowl-6-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3092091094094/The-Time-Paradox-Artemis-Fowl-6-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3097090098095094/Artemis-Fowl-Artemis-Fowl-1-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8097091093099099/Artemis-Fowl-Artemis-Fowl-1-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3099098095090097/Artemis-Fowl-Artemis-Fowl-1-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8094094099095099/The-Last-Guardian-Artemis-Fowl-8-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2092092094098095/The-Eternity-Code-Artemis-Fowl-3-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3093097090093/The-Lost-Colony-Artemis-Fowl-5-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2097091091095095/The-Opal-Deception-Artemis-Fowl-4-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4095094092092095/The-Arctic-Incident-Artemis-Fowl-2-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5090091095092098/The-Opal-Deception-Artemis-Fowl-4-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5090091091096098/The-Arctic-Incident-Artemis-Fowl-2-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2097090094099097/The-Eternity-Code-Artemis-Fowl-3-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3093097095091/The-Arctic-Incident-Artemis-Fowl-2-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2098099095091093/The-Arctic-Incident-Artemis-Fowl-2-by-Eoin-Colfer.pdf