Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1994cc5ee495a3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

22.0 KB Created: 2019-05-03 05:58:51 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7 First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: abd3e4f9090cb606cc043b00ef27778b SHA-1: acb5e9c393dc496b6a7d80cd21ee0178178cdef1 SHA-256: a1994cc5ee495a3cded837cf6b48aaa0e802b67eaa305bb9c25ee021d27679be
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, identified as a link farm, which is a common technique for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful websites, possibly as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/6f219f212f210f215f219/Getting-History-Right-East-and-West-German-Collective-Memories-of-the-Holocaust-and-War-by-Mark-Wolfgram.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/6f219f212f210f215f211/Getting-History-Right-East-and-West-German-Collective-Memories-of-the-Holocaust-and-War-by-Mark-A-Wolfgram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/6f216f218f210f216f214/Josef-Mengele---Angel-of-Death-Holocaust-amp-History-of-Second-World-War-by-Mark-Paterson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/2f216f217f210f219f213/East-of-West-West-of-East-by-Hamish-Brown.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/6f219f212f210f215f212/It-s-Never-Too-Late-Dr-Ed-Wolfgram-s-Book-of-Fitness-by-Edwin-Wolfgram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/8f219f219f213f210f215/Panzer-Wedge-Volume-One-The-German-3rd-Panzer-Division-and-the-Summer-of-Victory-in-the-East-Stackpole-Military-History-Series-by-Fritz-Lucke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f210f213f216f214f219/The-World-Must-Know-The-History-Of-The-Holocaust-As-Told-In-The-United-States-Holocaust-Memorial-Museum-by-Michael-Berenbaum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/9f215f219f211f216/The-War-Never-Ended-Memories-of-Holocaust-Survivors-by-Simon-Hammelburg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f210f219f213f217f215f210/German-History-and-German-Identity-Uwe-Johnson-s-Jahrestage-by-D-G-Bond.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f211f217f210f219f215f211/Home-by-Christmas-Book-2-Memories-of-a-German-POW-by-Edwin-K-Mahlo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/7f218f210f210f210f218/Quebec-Women-A-History-by-Clio-Collective.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f210f217f213f214f210f216/DDR-Posters-The-Art-of-East-German-Propaganda-by-David-Heather.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f213f212f215f214f210/The-Power-of-Collective-Wisdom-And-the-Trap-of-Collective-Folly-by-Alan-Briskin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/5f211f218f211f217f217/Karl-Marx-Collective-Economy-Society-and-Religion-in-a-Siberian-Collective-Farm-by-Caroline-Humphrey.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f214f210f212f213f215/The-History-of-India-in-50-Events-Indian-History---Akbar-the-Great---East-India-Company---Taj-Mahal---Mahatma-Gandhi-Timeline-History-in-50-Events-Book-4-by-Stephan-Weaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/8f216f210f216f216f217/East-of-West-1-by-Jonathan-Hickman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f210f216f216f212f215/East-of-West-Vol-4-Who-Wants-War-by-Jonathan-Hickman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f217f217f218f218f211/Psychotherapy-East-and-West-by-Alan-W-Watts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f210f216f216f210f214/East-of-West-Vol-5-All-These-Secrets-by-Jonathan-Hickman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/4f210f217f216f213f214/Across-Australia-from-East-to-West-by-Thomas-Palfy.pdfIn PDF document text