Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55268a0973f96978…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.7 KB Created: 2019-04-30 07:19:52 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 944db14b9dcf1946b66fee7838f5f7f9 SHA-1: 0e40afcffacc5c15324b32c37ae5172f3c655c29 SHA-256: 55268a0973f969782c2aba834bc06105c1a737953f18c6b666fc0fd4208a4c48
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to a critical heuristic firing for a PDF SEO link farm. It contains numerous embedded URLs, all pointing to the domain 'loaminoo.linkpc.net', which are likely used to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting the ability to determine the exact payload or delivery mechanism beyond the link farm.

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/1099092095090091/Practice-Makes-Perfect-Housemates-3-by-Jay-Northcote.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1099092094092096/Practice-Makes-Perfect-by-Sarah-Madison.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7099098093096092/Practice-Makes-Perfect-French-Sentence-Builder-by-Eliane-Kurbegov.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3090091099093097/Practice-Makes-Perverts-by-G-R-Richards.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1093095099092094/Too-Perfect-Perfect-Trilogy-3-by-Julie-Ortolon.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1099090097098091/Hard-Knocks-Practice-Perfect-2-by-Ruby-Lang.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1099095095090098/Halfway-Perfect-by-Julie-Cross.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7091092094092098/Charity-Which-Makes-the-Difference-The-Institute-Series-by-James-Hanvey.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090096097099094094/The-Little-Paris-Patisserie-A-heartwarming-and-feel-good-cosy-romance---perfect-for-fans-of-Bake-Off-Romantic-Escapes-Book-3-by-Julie-Caplin.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7099099093098097/The-Art-and-Practice-of-Ancient-Hindu-Astrology-by-James-Braha.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5099096091097099/The-Comprehensive-Handbook-of-Constructivist-Teaching-From-Theory-to-Practice-by-James-Pelech.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3090093092094/About-That-Night-by-Julie-James.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3090091098093092/Something-About-You-FBI-US-Attorney-1-by-Julie-James.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3099092096095096/Something-About-You-FBI-US-Attorney-1-by-Julie-James.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9095092094094/A-Perfect-Persecution-by-James-R-Lucas.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7098099096095097/James-Havard-by-Julie-Sasse.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3091092092093097/Finnigan-the-Dragon-by-Julie-Ann-James.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4095097092099096/Just-the-Sexiest-Man-Alive-by-Julie-James.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091094090098094097/Annotated-Guide---RN-to-the-Texas-Nursing-Practice-ACT-11th-Edition-2013-by-James-Willmann.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4094098091091096/The-Art-of-Changing-the-Brain-Enriching-the-Practice-of-Teaching-by-Exploring-the-Biology-of-Learning-by-James-E-Zull.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/10