Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6970db044fc54a6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.9 KB Created: 2019-05-01 19:36:21 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 844bd0d979d40fa35879c1aab7aaea05 SHA-1: c508e37c0c83ba954d6c69c68ce7e63dfa27ec38 SHA-256: 6970db044fc54a6adcd72754feb7351b21e9caba4425fc2343b5b588a3db4941
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external websites, masquerading as book downloads. This technique is often used to drive traffic to malicious sites or to distribute further malware. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/4208201209201209/Life-in-America-Life-in-America-by-Arnaz-Buckner.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/7207202209200200/The-Slanted-Life-of-Emily-Dickinson-America-s-Favorite-Recluse-Just-Got-a-Life-by-Rosanna-Bruno.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3204209208207202/After-the-Ice-Age-The-Return-of-Life-to-Glaciated-North-America-by-E-C-Pielou.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3200204204209202/The-Cultural-Life-of-Modern-America-by-Knut-Hamsun.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3200203208202204/One-Day-at-Fenway-A-Day-in-the-Life-of-Baseball-in-America-by-Steve-Kettmann.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1204201204204204/East-to-America-Korean-American-Life-Stories-by-Elaine-H-Kim.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1201207207205201200/The-Five-Ton-Life-Carbon-America-and-the-Culture-That-May-Save-Us-by-Susan-Subak.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1201204207206203/Mistress-Bradstreet-The-Untold-Life-of-America-s-First-Poet-by-Charlotte-Gordon.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/4205202205201/I-Go-to-America-Swedish-American-Women-and-the-Life-of-Mina-Anderson-by-Joy-K-Lintelman.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/5200200202202202/Doing-Time-on-the-Outside-Incarceration-and-Family-Life-in-Urban-America-by-Donald-Braman.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/4207206206201206/America-s-Mistress-The-Life-and-Times-of-Eartha-Kitt-by-John-Williams.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/4207209207208209/Oops-20-Life-Lessons-from-the-Fiascoes-That-Shaped-America-by-Martin-J-Smith.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/6207203201207202/Vigilance-My-Life-Serving-America-and-Protecting-Its-Empire-City-by-Ray-Kelly.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/8200206204208202/Inventing-the-Psychological-Toward-a-Cultural-History-of-Emotional-Life-in-America-by-Joel-Pfister.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/2205209200204200/Senor-Nice-Straight-Life-from-Wales-to-South-America-by-Howard-Marks.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3207201203208205/Victorian-America-Transformations-in-Everyday-Life-1876-1915-by-Thomas-J-Schlereth.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/5201200201202/Rabbletown-Life-in-These-United-Christian-States-of-Holy-America-by-Randy-Attwood.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3203201208207202/Golden-Gate-The-Life-and-Times-of-America-s-Greatest-Bridge-by-Kevin-Starr.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/2208204209208/Sidonia-s-Thread-The-Secrets-of-a-Mother-and-Daughter-Sewing-a-New-Life-in-America-by-Hanna-Perlstein-Marcus.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3204200207203203/Tropical-Nature-Life-and-Death-in-the-Rain-Forests-of-Central-and-South-America-by-Adrian-Forsyth.pdf