Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e608f9c2a9670887…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB Created: 2019-05-07 04:22:57 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 9f70606d054b806d7714fe708c1fc865 SHA-1: 1d5aa78faa0710ca46f5c3566c6f713332069c6f SHA-256: e608f9c2a9670887e78306f9e3c27b8381247e25ca2883d669520ad91ffe24e6
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, identified as a link farm. While the URLs themselves are currently marked as benign, the sheer volume and the heuristic firing of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM suggest a malicious intent, likely to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to harmful sites. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9891

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/2091093096098091/Run-The-Hunted-1-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1092096095091099/Run-The-Hunted-1-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1096093090091099/Prince-Nameless-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1096092097093090/Weregirl-The-Lychos-Cycle-1-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1096092099095097/Girl-Incredible-Kit-MacLean-1-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1096092097093092/Foresight-Helios-Oracles-1-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1096093090092093/Fire-and-Illusion-Blood-and-Gold-2-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1096093090092097/Ancient-Ways-Hayle-Coven-15-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1096093090092099/Queen-of-Darkness-Hayle-Coven-12-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091091092092090/Smoke-and-Magic-Blood-and-Gold-1-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4093098093097090/The-Long-Lost-Hayle-Coven-5-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1096093090090095/Dark-Brother-Hayle-Coven-Destinies-7-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1096093090092094/Coven-Leader-Hayle-Coven-19-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8091090099091091/Clone-One-The-Clone-Chronicles-3-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8091090099090098/Clone-Two-The-Clone-Chronicles-2-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8091090099097098/Clone-Three-Clone-Two-Clone-One-The-Clone-Chronicles-1-3-by-Patti-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1097093097093091/Hunted-LeKrista-Scott-Vampire-Hunted-2-by-Tyffani-Clark-Kemp.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2099096094093090/An-Intimation-of-Things-Distant-The-Collected-Fiction-of-Nella-Larsen-by-Nella-Larsen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091097096091090/The-Hunted-The-Hunted-1-by-Kristy-Berridge.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3097090097099094/Hunted-An-Erotic-Retelling-of-Beauty-and-the-Beast-Hunted-by-the-Beast-1-5-by-Cerys-du-Lys.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8091090099091091/Cl