Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0fad37f48754c64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.5 KB Created: 2019-05-02 02:35:15 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: ab577efa30bef9ad4eff826acf49b9ad SHA-1: 1f5db6c5c6baffac7dd4613e12f056c51411a512 SHA-256: a0fad37f48754c6466243a374415ed69b1b0e83ac1d013cd42198a6852f7f363
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, forming a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates that these URLs are designed to mimic search engine results for books, likely to attract users seeking content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9920

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://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4095099097094097/All-the-Best-The-Selected-Poems-Of-Roger-Mc-Gough-by-Roger-McGough.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5092097096094092/The-Kingfisher-Book-of-Funny-Poems-by-Roger-McGough.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4095099091094097/In-the-Glassroom-by-Roger-McGough.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4095099098099094/The-Ring-Of-Words-An-Anthology-Of-Poetry-For-Children-by-Roger-McGough.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5091092099099/Letters-from-Siberia-and-Other-Poems-by-Roger-Mitchell.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090090097095096/Ten-Poems-to-Change-Your-Life-by-Roger-Housden.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090091096095095/Ten-Poems-to-Open-Your-Heart-by-Roger-Housden.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4091097099099090/The-Complete-Writings-of-Roger-Williams---Volume-3-Bloudy-Tenent-of-Persecution-by-Roger-Williams.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8094094090096090/Roger-Ebert-s-Four-Star-Reviews-1967-2007-by-Roger-Ebert.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9091094091097/Last-Exit-to-Babylon-The-Collected-Stories-of-Roger-Zelazny-Vol-4-by-Roger-Zelazny.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2097095097093091/Myths-of-the-Norsemen-Retold-from-the-Old-Norse-Poems-and-Tales-by-Roger-Lancelyn-Green.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9091096094098095/Roger-Ebert-s-Movie-Yearbook-2002-by-Roger-Ebert.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3090093091098090/Who-Censored-Roger-Rabbit-Roger-Rabbit-1-by-Gary-K-Wolf.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9091096094098096/Roger-Ebert-s-Movie-Yearbook-2004-by-Roger-Ebert.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091091097097096090/Poems-of-the-Irish-Revolutionary-Brotherhood-Thomas-MacDonagh-P-H-Pearse-Joseph-Mary-Plunkett-Sir-Roger-Casement-1916-by-Padraic-Colum.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5090095093093/Awake-in-the-Dark-The-Best-of-Roger-Ebert-by-Roger-Ebert.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5090099099095090/How-the-Bicycle-Shone-New-amp-Selected-Poems-New-and-Selected-Poems-by-Gillian-Allnutt.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3094099099095/Thirsting-for-Peace-in-a-Raging-Century-Selected-Poems-1961-85-Selected-Works-2-by-Ed-Sanders.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5098097091090092/War-amp-Love-Love-amp-War-New-and-Selected-Poems-New-and-Selected-Poems-by-Aharon-Shabtai.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2094092092093094/The-BOX-by-Roger-McKasson.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2097095097093091/My