Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a06fc652f493a0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.3 KB Created: 2020-02-14 22:07:29 +00:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: b4f91ebf662342b9b295d962bef05f00 SHA-1: 821547d160d39755e7512fa8f16c48fb75985a93 SHA-256: 7a06fc652f493a0e89b6d8311ceba4b141c729b8fd4ff9f5aa6388dcf5043ead
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. These links all point to the same dominant host, weisncio.myhome.cx, and appear to be designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9925

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://weisncio.myhome.cx/3622622626626625/The-Time-Store-The-Time-Store-1-by-Andrew-Clark.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/1628626627624624/Thrift-Store-Saints-Meeting-Jesus-25-at-a-Time-by-Jane-F-Knuth.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/6624624624627623/A-Turtle-on-the-Pond-of-Time-Philosophical-Dialogues-That-Question-the-Nature-of-Time-by-Andrew-Bernardin.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/4627628621620624/Bug-s-Trip-to-the-Store-by-K-M-Groshek.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/5622622621622627/The-Old-Country-Store-by-Gerald-Carson.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/4625626629623624/Store-of-Infinity-by-Robert-Sheckley.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/3621620625620621/Forever-and-a-Day-The-Company-Store-2-by-Ann-Gimpel.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/4623625626621620/Miranda-s-Mate-The-Company-Store-1-by-Ann-Gimpel.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/6625625627627621/The-Jew-Store-A-Family-Memoir-by-Stella-Suberman.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/8622624626/Convenience-Store-Woman-by-Sayaka-Murata.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/2628628627623627/Santa-s-Lap-Sinclair-Store-1-by-Lani-Aames.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/2627628629622/Tommy-at-the-Grocery-Store-by-Bill-Grossman.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/4625623627623627/A-Meeting-at-the-Grocery-Store-by-Natasha-D-Lane.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/4621620620629626/A-Time-Travel-Fantasy-Bundle-Footsteps-in-Time-Prince-of-Time-After-Cilmeri-1-2-by-Sarah-Woodbury.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/1620622626627621/The-Everything-Store-Jeff-Bezos-and-the-Age-of-Amazon-by-Brad-Stone.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/9625620629621620/Grilled-for-Murder-Country-Store-Mysteries-2-by-Maddie-Day.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/1620626622627620621/The-Last-of-the-Mohicans-Classics-Illustrated-4-of-169-by-Classic-Comic-Store.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/2622620627626627/The-Everything-Store-Jeff-Bezos-and-the-Age-of-Amazon-by-Brad-Stone.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/4625624623621623/Murder-In-The-Yoga-Store-by-Peter-Ross-Range.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/4624625628629622/The-Big-Book-Of-Time-Travel-Romance-Includes-After-Cilmeri-0-5-Lost-Highlander-1-The-McKinnon-Legends-1-Out-of-Time-1-Time-Walkers-1-by-Sarah-Woodbury.pdf
    • http://weisncio.myhome.cx/3621620625620621/Forever-and-a-Day-The-Comp