Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9adaefa7fc15a72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

27.4 KB Created: 2020-04-18 20:47:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: eded157d039908ddf4297c17bf8e48af SHA-1: ab955fef5949106c20562c589e1912e299c58803 SHA-256: a9adaefa7fc15a7220953f3ff85d26c124b75d5494316c16abddb1ce322554a7
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, characteristic of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of multiple URLs suggests the primary intent is to redirect users to potentially malicious external content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://forgingtheuncommonlife.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163943/131163943.html#atmosfera+primitiva+pdf
    • http://omc4thgrade.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604452/3658982.pdf
    • http://lockheartproject.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483383/ed0f95792c.pdf
    • http://lkdb.net/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323409/406733.pdf
    • http://marz2019.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874035/nesibonuxubesu.pdf
    • http://maid2sparkle.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437380/ginukiresa.pdf
    • http://mymurphystory.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776698/3517773.pdf
    • http://lpotravelservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130324004/1134435.pdf
    • http://adreamyday.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605107/pizaderus_peruxawituz.pdf
    • http://delvallealasnaciones.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289756/7745473.pdf
    • http://herpregnancy411.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410090/6a30e26921b6.pdf
    • http://mcncleaningservicesllc.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435787/metuxejuxanuvumeka.pdf