Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51bfd57aa45e16c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.4 KB Created: 2019-04-30 04:26:09 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: c5538b21e681a3a8d406d8652eaa80ef SHA-1: c9835e68196dda005c5fe6678229b4ca8facf7b7 SHA-256: 51bfd57aa45e16c5f25c2ea2ad208546877a150b5e0c1e329e6f0e7212d90fbf
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external PDFs, hosted on the domain loaminoo.linkpc.net. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or a phishing lure, aiming to direct users to potentially malicious content. 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 0.9920

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/1090095098091095095/A-Man-Called-Rasmus-by-JAMES-T-BORN.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090095098090096097/The-Rasmus-The-Rasmus-Albums-the-Rasmus-Members-the-Rasmus-Songs-the-Rasmus-Discography-Ghostbusters-Dead-Letters-Hide-from-the-Sun-by-Source-Wikipedia.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090095098090097090/Maximum-Rasmus-The-Unauthorised-Biography-Of-The-Rasmus-Maximum-series-by-Andrea-Thorn.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090097095099094/Soul-Born-Soul-Born-Saga-1-by-Kevin-James-Breaux.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091095098093096093/A-Spy-Called-James-The-True-Story-of-James-Armistead-Lafayette-Revolutionary-War-Double-Agent-by-Anne-Rockwell.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090095098091095093/Life-Story-of-Rasmus-B-Anderson-by-Rasmus-Bj-rn-Anderson.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5092090096097096/Born-Yesterday-by-James-Solheim.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2098096093096/Kamikaze-Kangaroos-A-trip-around-Oz-in-a-van-called-Rusty-by-Tony-James-Slater.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3097098099091099/Born-To-Win-Transactional-Analysis-With-Gestalt-Experiments-by-Muriel-James.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091093095093093096/Understanding-What-It-Means-to-Be-Born-Again-And-Things-Pertaining-to-Being-Born-Again-by-Michael-J-Rech.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6091093094098/Born-In-Trilogy-Collection-Born-In-1-3-by-Nora-Roberts.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3090090091099093/Come-When-Called-Come-When-Called-1-7-by-Piper-Trace.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1092092098098092/Programming-PHP-by-Rasmus-Lerdorf.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2093095092098098/Rasmus-and-the-Vagabond-by-Astrid-Lindgren.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090093094092096/I-Was-Born-There-I-Was-Born-Here-by-Mourid-Barghouti.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4098092091095094/I-Was-Born-There-I-Was-Born-Here-by-Mourid-Barghouti.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4095090099090094/Born-Born-1-by-Tara-Brown.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9093092093095091/Love-Period-Loving-Those-Who-are-Not-Like-You-by-Rudy-Rasmus.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090095098091095098/Rasmus---Tales-of-a-Utah-Cowboy-by-Beth-M-Stephenson.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090095098090096093/Simplify-A-Guide-To-Caring-For-The-Soul-by-Carolyn-J-Rasmus.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5092090