Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 975aad0a566ab5c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.1 KB Created: 2019-04-30 05:46:47 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 5c1f49406a9a48d4f7a1d017380ece7e SHA-1: 4509ed7008a61405a44af8dd73b3d3e8719e52a2 SHA-256: 975aad0a566ab5c6524021c29362017e92f33be58e35b0bd6af8b4d7735572f1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF documents on the domain loaminoo.linkpc.net. This heuristic firing indicates a link farm, likely for SEO poisoning or to drive traffic to malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample. The attack pattern is inferred from the mass of external links and the suspicious domain.

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/6094092094093091/Culture-Matters-in-Russia-and-Everywhere-Backdrop-for-the-Russia-Ukraine-Conflict-by-Lawrence-Harrison.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5091098099092091/National-Identity-and-Foreign-Policy-Nationalism-and-Leadership-in-Poland-Russia-and-Ukraine-by-Ilya-Prizel.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7095096095091093/Is-Russia-a-European-Power-The-Position-of-Russia-in-a-New-Europe-by-Tom-Casier.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8095097094091096/Russia-ABCs-A-Book-about-the-People-and-Places-of-Russia-by-Ann-Berge.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5090099091099090/Concord-and-Conflict-The-United-States-and-Russia-1867-1914-by-Norman-E-Saul.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091093099090092097/Conflict-in-Ukraine-The-Unwinding-of-the-Post-Cold-War-Order-by-Rajan-Menon.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2091097097093091/From-Russia-with-Love-by-Ian-Fleming.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9092094096096096/Russia-in-Transition-by-Isaac-Deutscher.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4093091096099094/Reginald-in-Russia-and-Other-Sketches-by-Saki.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2096094097092096/The-Invention-of-Russia-by-Arkady-Ostrovsky.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2099091096097098/Vodkaberg-Nine-Years-in-Russia-by-English-Teacher-X.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090090092095093090/Russia-s-Last-Romanovs-In-Their-Own-Words-by-Helen-Azar.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7095095097093094/The-Punisher-MAX-Vol-3-Mother-Russia-by-Garth-Ennis.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1096099092094091/Russia-s-Unfinished-Revolution-by-Michael-McFaul.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4098092092097092/The-Ice-Girl-Welcome-to-Russia-A-KHL-Ice-Hockey-Romance-1-by-Liv-Shelby.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4090093097096099/Russia-Under-the-Bolshevik-Regime-by-Richard-Pipes.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5094091091098/Tastes-and-Tales-from-Russia-by-Alla-Danishevsky.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7092097092091092/From-Russia-With-Pride-A-memoir-of-a-Jew-in-the-U-S-S-R-by-Anatoly-Kazachin.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3095093092090090/The-Russia-Shift-The-Fuse-1-by-Antony-Johnston.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4097091091097094/Myths-of-Russia-and-the-Slavs-by-Anita-Dalal.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2091097097093091/From-Russia-with-