Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2a932f7a4874328…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.9 KB Created: 2019-04-30 17:50:44 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 55c131b8f1512ee2f097049c9982ae51 SHA-1: f28c567a4c00628822987f9fbf13fc4bd04bc376 SHA-256: c2a932f7a4874328372af98c94947fbd155a0cb65e0d10fa0e213cfa879e3349
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Phishing:Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, identified as a PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. These URLs point to various PDF documents hosted on loaminoo.linkpc.net. While the content of the document body is heavily obfuscated, the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. 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/8099099097091092/Keats-and-Hellenism-An-Essay-by-Martin-Aske.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8099099098095098/Hellenism-and-the-Postcolonialist-Imagination-Yeats-Cavafy-Walcott-by-Martin-McKinsey.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8099099096099098/The-Art-of-Greece-the-Age-of-Hellenism-by-T-B-L-Webster.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8099099097095097/Hellenism-and-Christianity-by-W-Malley.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8099099096096098/The-Heritage-Of-Hellenism-by-John-Ferguson.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8099099096096092/Hellenism-by-Norman-DeMattos-Bentwich.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8099099096099094/Hellenism-and-Christianity-by-Edwyn-Bevan.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8099099097095098/Hellenism-and-Hebraism-by-Borys-Kowalsky.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4097090095095090/John-Keats-by-John-Keats.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8099099097095093/Classical-Anatolia-The-Glory-of-Hellenism-by-Harry-Brewster.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8099099098091093/Wound-of-Greece-Studies-in-Neo-Hellenism-by-Philip-Sherrard.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1098092096099095/Ode-to-a-Nightingale-by-John-Keats.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8099099096096095/Heritage-and-Hellenism-The-Reinvention-of-Jewish-Tradition-by-Erich-S-Gruen.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6092093090094094/Regards-to-the-Man-in-the-Moon-by-Ezra-Jack-Keats.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4093098097090091/See-Europe-Next-Time-You-Go-There-by-John-C-Keats.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3098092099094/The-Complete-Poems-by-John-Keats.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3098091096097096/The-Trip-by-Ezra-Jack-Keats.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5091090096098098/John-Keats-by-Robert-Gittings.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091096093094099097/Endymion-and-Other-Poems-by-John-Keats.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090096099090094094/Keats-Leopardi-amp-Holderlin-by-Ray-Fleming.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8099099098091093/W