Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a608981023f80835…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.1 KB Created: 2019-04-30 03:36:55 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 5f32fbe6bf2a94e030feeead0381030b SHA-1: 879a20dd1c10da5161b267a6e25944041324f5fb SHA-256: a608981023f80835a56f2796887fb19e828a6a3f6698f2176b6199ced6d3b083
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF documents hosted on the domain 'loaminoo.linkpc.net'. This is indicative of a link farm or SEO spam tactic, potentially used to distribute malicious content or drive traffic. While the URLs themselves are currently marked as benign, the sheer volume and the nature of the heuristic firing suggest a malicious intent to redirect users. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/3094098098092095/Half-a-War-Shattered-Sea-3-by-Joe-Abercrombie.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1092093093/Half-a-War-Shattered-Sea-3-by-Joe-Abercrombie.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3096091095093090/Half-a-King-Shattered-Sea-1-by-Joe-Abercrombie.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6090091090096/Half-the-World-Shattered-Sea-2-by-Joe-Abercrombie.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2090097091098098/The-Collected-Joe-Abercrombie-The-Blade-Itself-Before-they-are-Hanged-Last-Argument-of-Kings-Best-Served-Cold-The-Heroes-Red-Country-by-Joe-Abercrombie.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6091099090095090/Half-and-Half-Writers-on-Growing-Up-Biracial-Bicultural-by-Claudine-O-39-Hearn.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2092096094093098/Half-Heaven-Half-Heartache-Discovering-the-Transformative-Potential-in-Women-s-Popular-Fiction-by-Linda-Hilton.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4092090091099090/Shattered-Shattered-Hearts-1-by-Nicole-Banks.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3097096096098/Shattered-Shattered-Hearts-1-by-Nicole-Banks.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8096090099091/Half-Lost-The-Half-Bad-Trilogy-3-by-Sally-Green.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8091098094097/Half-Wild-The-Half-Bad-Trilogy-2-by-Sally-Green.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4093093/Half-Wild-The-Half-Bad-Trilogy-2-by-Sally-Green.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1094098092094094/Half-Wild-The-Half-Bad-Trilogy-2-by-Sally-Green.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2091094091/Half-Truths-The-Half-Bad-Trilogy-0-6-by-Sally-Green.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4094097092099098/Half-Bloods-Rising-Half-Elf-Chronicles-1-by-J-T-Williams.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9099097091/Half-Bad-The-Half-Bad-Trilogy-1-by-Sally-Green.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2098093093099097/Shattered-The-Shattered-Saga-1-by-R-K-Garmon.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4098093097091099/Shattered-Shattered-1-by-Diana-Nixon.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1094094098094097/The-Girl-On-The-Half-Shell-The-Half-Shell-Series-1-by-Susan-Ward.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3091094099096097/Shattered-Glass-Shattered-Glass-1-by-Dani-Alexander.pdf