Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1e54144b0070716…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.2 KB Created: 2019-04-30 03:18:51 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: a0049d1451136842fb8738463d9ed220 SHA-1: 3c45327a6b4c31e10860fb12002486336a4f8a12 SHA-256: d1e54144b0070716cf4744285ecfed106f43a54c764844333c59649e31060667
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 as a link farm, which is a common technique for SEO poisoning and distributing malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URLs, such as http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7097093098092095/The-Cambridge-Companion-to-Spinoza-s-Ethics-by-Olli-Koistinen.pdf, are likely used to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9880

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/7097093098092095/The-Cambridge-Companion-to-Spinoza-s-Ethics-by-Olli-Koistinen.pdf
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