Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2a2ad5080bd9a86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.7 KB Created: 2019-05-02 02:01:29 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: b4ba849635e898a9d48d22e5f8fc6ffc SHA-1: d0cebf6b1fa57fd846cd369b9fc64dbbefbd7396 SHA-256: c2a2ad5080bd9a8640028ee994bcb244d0b67bdbbd71fc8dfa58e0827ca72a54
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, suggesting a link farm or distribution mechanism. While the specific intent of the links is unclear due to their benign reputation, the sheer volume and the ML classifier's high confidence indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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/5090097092097096/Jimmy-Carter-as-President-Leadership-and-the-Politics-of-the-Public-Good-by-Erwin-C-Hargrove.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091094093094090098/-quot-What-the-Heck-Are-You-Up-To-Mr-President-quot-Jimmy-Carter-America-s-quot-Malaise-quot-and-the-Speech-that-Should-Have-Changed-the-Country-by-Kevin-Mattson.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1098095098096090/Palestine-Peace-Not-Apartheid-by-Jimmy-Carter.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4094097098095091/Talking-Peace-A-Vision-for-the-Next-Generation-by-Jimmy-Carter.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4097095093097090/See-Here-Private-Hargrove-by-Marion-Hargrove.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2097095091096099/Memo-to-the-President-Elect-How-We-Can-Restore-America-s-Reputation-and-Leadership-by-Madeleine-K-Albright.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1095096097090099/We-Can-Have-Peace-in-the-Holy-Land-A-Plan-That-Will-Work-by-Jimmy-Carter.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1096091098092090/An-Hour-Before-Daylight-Memories-of-a-Rural-Boyhood-by-Jimmy-Carter.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1098095099091096/Jimmy-Carter-Human-Rights-and-the-National-Agenda-by-Mary-E-Stuckey.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3098093097090095/A-Passion-for-Leadership-Lessons-on-Change-and-Reform-from-Fifty-Years-of-Public-Service-by-Robert-M-Gates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091099093098092098/The-Politics-Of-Solzhenitsyn-by-Stephen-Carter.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2097094094090093/Deficit-Politics-Public-Budgeting-In-Its-Institutional-And-Historical-Context-by-Donald-F-Kettl.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3092099098091095/Silos-Politics-and-Turf-Wars-A-Leadership-Fable-about-Destroying-the-Barriers-That-Turn-Colleagues-Into-Competitors-by-Patrick-Lencioni.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091099097091092092/Remaking-California-Reclaiming-the-Public-Good-by-R-Jeffrey-Lustig.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7091092090096098/Good-Leaders-Ask-Great-Questions-Your-Foundation-for-Successful-Leadership-by-John-C-Maxwell.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8098099090096091/Leadersh-t-A-Look-at-the-Broken-Leadership-System-in-Corporate-America-That-Accepts-Leaders-Who-Are-Really-Good-at-Being-Bad-by-Rande-Somma.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4097091097098093/The-Good-Food-Guide-2014-by-Elizabeth-Carter.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4097091097098092/The-Good-Food-Guide-2017-by-Elizabeth-Carter.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091098095093095097/Iran-in-the-Early-Islamic-Period-Politics-Culture-Administration-and-Public-Life-Between-the-Arab-and-the-Seljuk-Conquests-633-1055-by-Bertold-Spuler.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5093099098093094/Higher-Education-as-a-Public-Good-Critical-Perspectives-on-Theory-Policy-and-Practice-by-Ourania-Filippakou.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2097095091096099/Memo-to-the-President-Elect-How-We-Can-Restore-America-s-Reputation-and-Leadership-by-Madeleine-K-Albrigh

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