Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0aaee89301a170c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.4 KB Created: 2019-04-30 10:46:40 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 4df7060ef21ad3eba30c60df3cc26719 SHA-1: 74ac86ff7e2ebe187e295146c7012bb03bc6e879 SHA-256: a0aaee89301a170c88fd65755b34b96b6ef2026d2b3a28ac92476448fd409efa
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF documents, a technique often used for SEO spam or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links and the ML detection suggest a malicious intent to redirect the user to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9880

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://muicuiu.dumb1.com/3a09a08a01a04a02/The-Grass-Crown-Masters-of-Rome-2-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/5a07a09a01a05/The-First-Man-in-Rome-Masters-of-Rome-1-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/3a04a01a06a08/The-First-Man-in-Rome-Masters-of-Rome-1-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/2a09a02a09a02a08/The-First-Man-in-Rome-Masters-of-Rome-1-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/2a06a06a01a02a09/The-October-Horse-Masters-of-Rome-6-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/3a08a08a08a02/Fortune-s-Favorites-Masters-of-Rome-3-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/2a06a05a03a06a08/Antony-and-Cleopatra-Masters-of-Rome-7-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/2a09a02a09a03a01/Caesar-s-Women-Masters-of-Rome-4-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/4a04a05a04a02/The-October-Horse-A-Novel-of-Caesar-and-Cleopatra-Masters-of-Rome-6-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/1a09a08a07a03a00/Tim-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/3a07a07a09a06a04/An-Indecent-Obsession-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/9a05a00a00a09a09/The-Thorn-Birds-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/3a06a00a00a05a08/On-Off-Carmine-Delmonico-1-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/7a03a02a02a08a04/Les-lauriers-de-Marius-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/1a05a05a09a02a04/A-Creed-for-the-Third-Millennium-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/6a04a00a08a08a01/The-Prodigal-Son-Carmine-Delmonico-4-by-Colleen-McCullough.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/4a07a04a07a01a06/Faster-Hotter-Take-Me-4-by-Colleen-Masters.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/1a00a01/Stepbrother-Untouchable-by-Colleen-Masters.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/3a05a08a00a09a01/Impossibly-Dante-s-Nine-MC-1-by-Colleen-Masters.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/1a08a03a04a09a05/Stepbrother-Billionaire-by-Colleen-Masters.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/4a04a05a04a02/The-October-Horse-A-Novel-of-Caesar-and-Cleopatra-Masters-of-Rome-6-by

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