Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0264ad9b963baa8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB Created: 2019-05-02 17:12:40 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 55866c3dfd5625b6f4677d57d725c891 SHA-1: aa529171f6caca577048093950899d54c395e0e7 SHA-256: f0264ad9b963baa8a4e776fd20e1e9aad006cc5520282891b2b961e9b422b656
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. The primary heuristic indicates this is a critical finding, suggesting the PDF's purpose is to direct users to numerous external sites. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links and the ML classifier's high confidence point towards malicious intent, likely for SEO spam or to distribute further malware. The attack pattern is inferred from the link farm heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9920

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://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/2f214f214f215f219f212/Lily-and-the-Major-Orphan-Train-1-by-Linda-Lael-Miller.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/2f216f212f217f214f210/Intentional-Abduction-Alien-Abduction-2-by-Eve-Langlais.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f218f212f213f214f214/The-Witch-s-Revenge-by-Linda-Gordon.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f211f211f215f212f217/The-Great-British-Book-of-Baking-120-best-loved-recipes-from-teatime-treats-to-pies-and-pasties-To-accompany-BBC2-s-The-Great-British-Bake-off-by-Linda-Collister.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/4f213f218f215f215/Dorothea-Lange-A-Life-Beyond-Limits-by-Linda-Gordon.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f215f214f211f213f219/The-Orphan-Conspiracies-29-Conspiracy-Theories-from-The-Orphan-Trilogy-by-James-Morcan.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/2f211f216f213f211f216/The-Ninth-Orphan-The-Orphan-Trilogy-1-by-James-Morcan.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/6f210f217f217f211f218/The-Second-Coming-of-the-KKK-The-Ku-Klux-Klan-of-the-1920s-and-the-American-Political-Tradition-by-Linda-Gordon.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f218f214f210f214f210/Impounded-Dorothea-Lange-and-the-Censored-Images-of-Japanese-American-Internment-by-Linda-Gordon.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/8f210f216f216f210/Permaculture-Home-Garden-How-To-Grow-Great-Tasting-Fruit-And-Vegetables-The-Organic-Way-by-Linda-Woodrow.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/2f211f212f215f218f214/The-Orphan-Queen-The-Orphan-Queen-1-by-Jodi-Meadows.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/3f219f218f210f212f216/The-Orphan-Trilogy-The-Orphan-Trilogy-1-3-by-James-Morcan.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/4f210f218/The-Orphan-Queen-The-Orphan-Queen-1-by-Jodi-Meadows.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/2f213f219f211f211f218/Goddess-In-The-Grass-Serpentine-Mythology-And-The-Great-Goddess-by-Linda-Foubister.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/5f211f219f213f218f212/Arizona-Women-by-Dee-Strickland-Johnson.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/1f217f219f217f213f219/The-Abduction-by-J-T-Lewis.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/2f218f217f214f219f213/Abduction-by-Amelita-Rae.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/5f212f218f210f216/Abduction-by-Peg-Kehret.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/6f217f217f212f211f212/Tales-of-Bagdad-Arizona-by-Mike-Owings.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/9f212f213f214/Erik-Arizona-Vengeance-2-by-Sawyer-Bennett.pdf
    • http://kiteeearpdf.myhome.cx/6f210f