Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a654d9933e511f86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.4 KB Created: 2020-04-18 02:55:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: a0d28eb9284db4ac3edcb6820cce774a SHA-1: 872a299e4c5465874370ea164239e9a06de2bcd4 SHA-256: a654d9933e511f8671360cf3fa7d1c4b5a1164c9c2625e39448ca230c8058561
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs suggests a delivery mechanism for further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://adam-suarez.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774982/130774982.html#break+dance+punjabi+song
    • http://awakeningtonow.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739267/6e255.pdf
    • http://waea.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620574/weriku_dusigukemu_divezakozesu_rakafoj.pdf
    • http://michaelbaycinema.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639710/16fcf4c9077f.pdf
    • http://kristiejohnston.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620985/5887438.pdf
    • http://dailydealindustryassociation.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639693/673db48469d7.pdf
    • http://newgenteam.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551211/divobanibo.pdf
    • http://realfengshuimaste.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383848/9082391.pdf
    • http://jcsqualityservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738799/5848054.pdf
    • http://tucsonpressurewashing.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550844/9019601.pdf
    • http://cheapwisdom.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639395/dixajudamuzoxo.pdf
    • http://truelightnj.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407952/61ef5b758c30e.pdf
    • http://mbaexpertise.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407155/006f5166c.pdf
    • http://egenberger.info/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288364/9552619.pdf
    • http://vrweekly.us/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604114/7146729.pdf

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.