Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Heuristics 4

• Fake 'free download' SEO-poisoning PDF critical PDF_SEO_FAKE_DOWNLOAD
  The ML classifier flagged this PDF AND it carries a visual download/call-to-action lure AND an off-domain server-side download-gateway link whose query string names a document payload. This three-signal conjunction is the fake-document / 'free PDF download' SEO-poisoning delivery pattern: the page is padded with benign decoy links to dilute classifier scores while funnelling the victim through the gateway to malware/scareware. Acting only on the conjunction keeps benign download-bearing PDFs from being misflagged.
• PDF carries a PHP-gateway SEO-spam PDF link farm medium PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARM
  PDF contains four or more clickable links whose target is a `.php` gateway with a multi-word search-PHRASE document slug embedded after it (e.g. 'index.php?.../binary+options+trading+nz.pdf' or 'pdf.php/cialis-dosage-side-effects.pdf'). Legitimate PHP-served documents use a filename or numeric id, not a search-query phrase, so this is the generated SEO link-farm shape — pharma / binary-options / 'free download' spam that ranks for queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
• Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
  Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
• 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://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=stalin-a-new-history.pdf In PDF document text

  • http://uncpbisdegree.com/download4.php?q=stalin-a-new-history.pdfIn PDF document text
  • http://besthistorysites.net/modern-history/stalin/In PDF document text
  • http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/12/18/birth-of-stalin/In PDF document text
  • http://exiledonline.com/a-peoples-history-of-koch-industries-how-stalin-funded-the-tea-party-movement/In PDF document text
  • http://carolynyeager.net/history-has-change-hitler-stalin-churchill-roosevelt-wwiiIn PDF document text
  • https://historyofrussia.org/stalin-killed-how-many-people/In PDF document text
  • http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-most-horrific-genocides-in-history.phpIn PDF document text
  • http://www.dannen.com/decision/potsdam.htmlIn PDF document text
  • http://riverside-resort.net/1/tissues-anatomy-physiology-study-guide-answers.pdfIn PDF document text
  • http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-internet-book-4th-edition.pdfIn PDF document text
  • http://riverside-resort.net/1/swing-the-sickle-for-the-harvest-is-ripe-gender-and-slavery-in-a.pdfIn PDF document text
  • http://riverside-resort.net/1/top-notch-1a-workbook-unit-5.pdfIn PDF document text
  • http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-perpetual-career.pdfIn PDF document text
  • http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-hog-book-brown-thrasher-books.pdfIn PDF document text
  • http://riverside-resort.net/1/systematic-layout-planning-block-diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
  • http://riverside-resort.net/1/topic-test-answers-for-global-history-4-edgenuity.pdfIn PDF document text
  • http://riverside-resort.net/1/tvs-suzuki-max-100-service-manual.pdfIn PDF document text
  • http://riverside-resort.net/1/toyota-forklift-service-manual.pdfIn PDF document text
  • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
  • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
  • https://www.history.com/topics/joseph-stalinIn PDF document text
  • https://www.history.com/topics/joseph-stalin/videos/stalins-purgesIn PDF document text
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_StalinIn PDF document text
  • http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/03/10/hitler-vs-stalin-who-killed-more/In PDF document text
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/z8nbcdmIn PDF document text
  • http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/02/05/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-mao/In PDF document text
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history_in_RussiaIn PDF document text
  • http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/bios/all_bio_joseph_stalin.htmIn PDF document text
  • http://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-kill-1111789In PDF document text
  • http://www.ibtimes.com/worldIn PDF document text
  • https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/russia-1900-to-1939/life-in-ussr-under-stalin/In PDF document text
  • https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/russia-1900-to-1939/In PDF document text
  • https://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Europe-Between-Hitler-Stalin/dp/0465031471In PDF document text
  • https://www.amazon.com/books-used-books-textbooks/b?ie=UTF8&node=283155In PDF document text
  • https://www.amazon.com/History-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=9In PDF document text
  • https://www.amazon.com/World-History-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=5035In PDF document text
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521839&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=246338&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
  • https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=868922In PDF document text
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=286759&CLCID=409In PDF document text
  • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617297In PDF document text
  • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicenseIn PDF document text

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.