Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f32818a78b310f92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.0 KB Created: 2019-05-01 05:14:26 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 4b25135390d50792698e101a31b119ba SHA-1: 52b2dff003c72d8be934f186a3a2722b494eb383 SHA-256: f32818a78b310f92065ad707897be1220f1ca641ef07b32a430f24bc047296f6
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links to external URLs, masquerading as book downloads. This technique is often used to redirect users to malicious websites. While the specific URLs were flagged as benign, the overall structure and intent strongly suggest a malicious lure. No scripts were extracted from this sample, limiting further analysis of its payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0700

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/3a00a02a00a03a02/Eutawville-A-Novel-by-Olin-Nettles.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/2a05a07a02a05a03/No-Nettles-Required-The-Reassuring-Truth-About-Wildlife-Gardening-by-Ken-Thompson.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/8a02a03a06a00a02/Olin-s-Sacrifice-by-Drako.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/7a02a03a03a07/Brother-Sister-by-Sean-Olin.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/5a06a04a00a08a06/Sabena-Wolf-by-Olin-Thompson.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/2a01a04a08a05/Revolution-The-Year-I-Fell-in-Love-and-Went-to-Join-the-War-by-Deb-Olin-Unferth.pdf
    • http://muicuiu.dumb1.com/1a08a00a03a06a05/Wicked-Games-Wicked-Games-1-by-Sean-Olin.pdf