Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebed5024ea7a86a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.6 KB Created: 2019-04-30 04:00:51 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: c58ce4198e60c015d7f67a3265c030c0 SHA-1: 1a75df766ad53f4868ee3cf0f59b068b7a371a01 SHA-256: ebed5024ea7a86a954dd63b7557bb48dc6e8400228be78335cf659044b16b759
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, preventing a deeper analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9775

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://muicuiu.dumb1.com/1a01a09a06a07a03a08/The-Lives-of-the-Brain-Human-Evolution-and-the-Organ-of-Mind-by-John-S-Allen.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/4a01a05a09a02a07/Ape-Mind-Old-Mind-New-Mind-The-Evolution-of-the-Human-Spirit-by-John-Wylie.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/8a05a07a09a02a03/Mind-and-Brain-A-Dialogue-on-the-Mind-Body-Problem-by-Rocco-J-Gennaro.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/1a01a08a08a04a07a06/BARENREITER-LUBECK-VINCENT---NEW-EDITION-OF-THE-COMPLETE-ORGAN-AND-KEYBOARD-WORKS-VOL-1---ORGAN-HARPSICHORD-Classical-sheets-Organ-by-Lubeck.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/3a05a05a07a03a03/Mind---The-Final-Frontier-Decoding-the-Human-Mind-by-Ravi-Singh.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/5a01a08a01a06a06/The-Symbolic-Species-The-Co-evolution-of-Language-and-the-Brain-by-Terrence-W-Deacon.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/1a01a01a03a07a07/Death-Drop-The-D-Evolution-1-by-Sean-Allen.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/2a05a00a09a09a03/Incognito-The-Secret-Lives-of-the-Brain-by-David-Eagleman.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/3a07a09a07a07a08/Incognito-The-Secret-Lives-of-the-Brain-by-David-Eagleman.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/4a09a09a04a09a06/Incognito-The-Secret-Lives-of-the-Brain-by-David-Eagleman.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/8a08a09a02a06a01/Mind-Wars-The-Battle-for-Your-Brain-by-Ian-McFadyen.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/5a01a01a04a02/Slow-Potential-Changes-in-the-Human-Brain-by-W-C-McCallus.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/1a00a05a09a02a00a01/Evolution-The-Human-Story-by-Alice-Roberts.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/1a03a08a06a05a08/Why-Is-Sex-Fun-The-Evolution-of-Human-Sexuality-by-Jared-Diamond.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/6a00a02a02a06/Evolve-Your-Brain-The-Science-of-Changing-Your-Mind-by-Joe-Dispenza.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/1a00a00a06a08a05a01/Nolte-s-Essentials-of-the-Human-Brain-by-Todd-Vanderah.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/1a00a00a06a09a04a01/Nolte-s-Essentials-of-the-Human-Brain-by-Todd-Vanderah.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/4a03a05a05a08/The-Red-Queen-Sex-and-the-Evolution-of-Human-Nature-by-Matt-Ridley.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/5a01a03a05a00a00/Searching-for-Memory-The-Brain-the-Mind-and-the-Past-by-Daniel-L-Schacter.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/2a03a08a09a03a06/Hare-Brain-Tortoise-Mind-How-Intelligence-Increases-When-You-Think-Less-by-Guy-Claxton.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/5a01a08a01a06a06/The-Symbolic-Species-The-Co-evolution-of-Language-and-the-Brain-by-Terrence-W-D