Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e0a2c157826f8e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.2 KB Created: 2020-03-18 17:00:06 +00:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 85d7ee1de8eb5932ddec6a3c41247647 SHA-1: c56eaa8375cd49ea2ca2ddf20b4b31f5edfaf430 SHA-256: 9e0a2c157826f8e484309edc998140c89afa4434fd05c4af9f4460deb0468162
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links to external PDF documents hosted on the domain 'calistazz.myhome.cx'. This heuristic firing suggests a link farm intended to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact payload or intent beyond the link farm. The presence of numerous numeric slugs in the URLs further supports the link farm hypothesis.

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://calistazz.myhome.cx/1860861861862866864/Glass-for-the-Table-XIX-Century-Murano-Glass-Tableware-by-Puccio-Migliaccio.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/1860861861861865864/20th-Century-Murano-Glass-From-Craft-to-Design-by-Marc-Heiremans.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/1860861860869860868/The-Murano-Glass-Slipper-A-Cinderella-Retelling-by-Victoria-Leybourne.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/1860861861860867869/Murano-Glass-1910-1970-Theme-and-Variations-by-Marc-Heiremans.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/1867860868860864/Heart-of-Glass-Glass-Trilogy-1-by-Eryn-Haes.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/2862865863868864/Storm-Glass-Glass-1-by-Maria-V-Snyder.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/4864868861860861/Spy-Glass-Glass-3-by-Maria-V-Snyder.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/4867862860864863/Sea-Glass-Glass-2-by-Maria-V-Snyder.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/3860861867869866/Glass-Towers-Home-for-the-Holidays-Short-Story-Glass-Towers-Series-by-Adler.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/3862867868862862/Poison-Study-amp-Storm-Glass-Glass-1-Study-1-by-Maria-V-Snyder.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/1862864866862866/Glass-Girl-Glass-Girl-1-by-Laura-Anderson-Kurk.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/3864861869862864/Throne-of-Glass-Throne-of-Glass-1-by-Sarah-J-Maas.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/7866869865867/The-Looking-Glass-Wars-The-Looking-Glass-Wars-1-by-Frank-Beddor.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/3868862869866865/Sisters-of-Glass-Sisters-of-Glass-1-by-Naomi-Cyprus.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/1865866864867867/The-Glass-Apple-The-Glass-Apple-1-by-Robert-J-Franks.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/8867862863869861/The-Glass-Ocean-the-Glass-Ocean-A-Novel-a-Novel-by-Beatriz-Williams.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/7864864860/Ink-Iron-and-Glass-Ink-Iron-and-Glass-1-by-Gwendolyn-Clare.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/3864863860865/The-Looking-Glass-Wars-The-Looking-Glass-Wars-1-by-Frank-Beddor.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/6865869867/The-Glass-Spare-The-Glass-Spare-1-by-Lauren-DeStefano.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx/4866867864860867/The-Looking-Glass-Wars-The-Looking-Glass-Wars-1-by-Frank-Beddor.pdf
    • http://calistazz.myhome.cx