Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 917b93d51ece61c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

22.0 KB Created: 2020-03-15 20:15:05 +00:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 3d3b50532300c908e375ea434ffb17a3 SHA-1: d31ab74b1a1d389af5cf1b8edbb6dbb64be64839 SHA-256: 917b93d51ece61c1d4fd9af8802b5572dee782dcb4385969ec4bb2a74fd750fe
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains a large number of embedded external links. The primary heuristic indicates a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM', suggesting the document's purpose is to host a collection of links, likely for SEO manipulation or to direct users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample. The embedded URLs are the highest priority IOCs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/2c30c36c35c36c34/When-Men-Become-Gods-Mormon-Polygamist-Warren-Jeffs-His-Cult-of-Fear-and-the-Women-Who-Fought-Back-by-Stephen-Singular.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/2c33c38c32c35c34/Stolen-Innocence-My-Story-of-Growing-Up-in-a-Polygamous-Sect-Becoming-a-Teenage-Bride-and-Breaking-Free-of-Warren-Jeffs-by-Elissa-Wall.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/1c32c37c35c38c35/Fear-the-Survivors-The-Fear-Saga-2-by-Stephen-Moss.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/4c30c39c31c33c34/Sisters-in-the-Resistance-How-Women-Fought-to-Free-France-1940-1945-by-Margaret-Collins-Weitz.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/3c30c34c33c38c33/Transmetropolitan-Vol-1-Back-on-the-Street-by-Warren-Ellis.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/6c35c38c39c37c37/A-Scientist-Looks-at-Book-of-Mormon-Anachronisms-Interpreter-A-Journal-of-Mormon-Scripture-10-by-Neal-Rappleye.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/2c39c39c30c35/Mormon-Convert-Mormon-Defector-A-Scottish-Immigrant-in-the-American-West-1848-1861-by-Polly-Aird.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/6c35c38c39c37c32/Book-of-Mormon-Minimalists-and-the-NHM-Inscriptions-A-Response-to-Dan-Vogel-Interpreter-A-Journal-of-Mormon-Scripture-8-by-Neal-Rappleye.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/4c30c34c34/The-Universe-Has-Your-Back-Transform-Fear-to-Faith-by-Gabrielle-Bernstein.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/3c32c30c38c35c39/Releasing-You-from-Fear-by-Stephen-Richards.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/3c37c39c30c31c39/Sometimes-They-Come-Back-by-Stephen-King.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/3c36c31c37c34c37/The-Splintered-Gods-The-Silver-Kings-2-by-Stephen-Deas.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/4c36c35c30c33/The-Secret-Lives-of-Men-and-Women-A-PostSecret-Book-by-Frank-Warren.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/1c35c33c39c31c32/Don-t-Look-Back-Women-of-Justice-2-by-Lynette-Eason.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/1c30c37c34c38/The-Lonely-Polygamist-by-Brady-Udall.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/3c35c31c39c30c31/The-Lonely-Polygamist-by-Brady-Udall.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/3c36c31c39c37/Transmetropolitan-Vol-1-Back-on-the-Street-Transmetropolitan-1-by-Warren-Ellis.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/3c36c37c33c33c32/Escape-by-Carolyn-Jeffs.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/4c31c37c36c31c36/Back-to-the-Front-An-Accidental-Historian-Walks-the-Trenches-of-World-War-1-by-Stephen-O-39-Shea.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/2c35c36c34c38c32/Talking-Back-and-Acting-Out-Women-Negotiating-the-Media-Across-Culture-by-Ann-Russo.pdf
    • http://ewasocmo.myhome.cx/6c35c38c39c37c