Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 580e0ada5f177885…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.9 KB Created: 2020-03-15 10:24:53 +00:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 38955727b5fbeab193c693e31a972656 SHA-1: a0dd0d60a8587c4c8adc63a24468cbf499fa5333 SHA-256: 580e0ada5f1778852650d914859fdfedca13073718c6fbcb19680a8fba62066b
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to a single domain, kitasdyu.myhome.cx. This is indicative of a link farm or SEO poisoning technique, designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous links to a suspicious domain strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9807

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://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/1875878876874870/The-Ascension-The-Wordwick-Games-2-by-Kailin-Gow.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/5871872877874/Ascension-An-Analysis-of-the-Art-of-Ascension-as-Taught-by-the-Ishayas-by-Maharishi-Sadasiva-Isham.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/4870876876872874/Ascension-An-Analysis-of-the-Art-of-Ascension-as-Taught-by-the-Ishayas-by-Maharishi-Sadasiva-Isham.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/1873874876873879/The-Darkening-Guardians-of-Ascension-6-5-Dawn-of-Ascension-2-by-Caris-Roane.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/3877876879877874/V-Games-Dead-Before-Dawn-The-Vampire-Games-Trilogy-3-by-Caroline-Peckham.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/3877876876875877/Wolf-Games-Island-of-Shade-The-Vampire-Games-5-by-Caroline-Peckham.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/1870875870874877875/Computer-Games-as-a-Sociocultural-Phenomenon-Games-Without-Frontiers-Wars-Without-Tears-by-Andreas-Jahn-Sudmann.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/6875870871870879/The-games-of-Vassili-Smyslov-2832-games-by-Thomas-Schoch.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/8877874873874873/The-games-of-Miguel-Najdorf-1795-games-by-Thomas-Schoch.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/8877874873874875/The-games-of-Tigran-Petrosian-2168-games-by-Thomas-Schoch.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/3874875876876872/Dirty-Wife-Games-Indecent-Games-2-by-Clarissa-Wild.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/8877874872873877/The-games-of-Efim-Bogoljubow-1208-games-by-Thomas-Schoch.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/8877874873874870/The-games-of-Mihail-Tal-2791-games-by-Thomas-Schoch.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/8877874873873875/The-games-of-Max-Euwe-1535-games-by-Thomas-Schoch.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/3872877875873874/Immortal-Darkness-The-Phantom-Diaries-3-by-Kailin-Gow.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/1873873872871870/Elemental-Explosions-The-Alchemists-Academy-2-by-Kailin-Gow.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/1875878876875874/Angels-and-Hunters-The-Stoker-Sisters-2-by-Kailin-Gow.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/1872877876876873/Shadow-Light-Beautiful-Beings-3-by-Kailin-Gow.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/7875875871870879/Ethereal-Devices-Steampunk-Scarlett-3-by-Kailin-Gow.pdf
    • http://kitasdyu.myhome.cx/3877872871876871/Stone-Cold-Heart-by-Kailin-Morgan.pdf