Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8332cc2c7f65076…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.5 KB Created: 2019-04-30 02:46:48 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 6e60c90253644dfdd3ec35de054eaf57 SHA-1: 40610f9397d947c346c44cf706d693c5f6221987 SHA-256: e8332cc2c7f6507683b96573737d15881160ae5d54972ad4c81477f9df4b79f7
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, identified as a link farm. The primary heuristic indicates a critical finding related to this link farm, with the dominant host being xiixmcuin.linkpc.net. While the document body contains these URLs, no malicious script or further payload delivery mechanism was detected within this sample. The intent appears to be directing users to external resources, potentially for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content.

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://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/4203200206202207/52-Reasons-to-Hate-My-Father-by-Jessica-Brody.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/4207202208205202/First-World-Problems-101-Reasons-Why-The-Terrorists-Hate-Us-by-Ben-Nesvig.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/7202206203206/Don-t-Hate-the-Player-Hate-the-Game-by-Katie-Ashley.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/9207204201203/So-Many-Reasons-Why-So-Many-Reasons-1-by-Missy-Johnson.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1200200205208203208/I-Hate-You-More-Than-Anyone-Vol-5-I-Hate-You-More-Than-Anyone-5-by-Banri-Hidaka.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/2207206206209207/I-Hate-You-More-Than-Anyone-Vol-1-I-Hate-You-More-Than-Anyone-1-by-Banri-Hidaka.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1200206206200202207/The-Cats-Came-Back-A-Magical-Cats-Mystery-10-by-Sofie-Kelly.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3201207206204205/Cats-Galore-A-Compendium-of-Cultured-Cats-by-Susan-Herbert.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3201208204203204/Cats-24-7-Extraordinary-Photographs-of-Wonderful-Cats-by-Rick-Smolan.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/9202202200204208/1000-Reasons-to-Be-Happy-1000-Reasons-by-David-Baird.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3209201202203201/You-by-Joanna-Briscoe.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1204208203202206/Trick-by-Laramie-Briscoe.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1200202203209206/Sisters-amp-Husbands-by-Connie-Briscoe.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/4205206201201202/Rough-Patch-Heaven-Hill-6-5-by-Laramie-Briscoe.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/4209207204206208/The-Price-of-Love-Rockin-Country-2-by-Laramie-Briscoe.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3205207209206206/Home-Free-Heaven-Hill-8-by-Laramie-Briscoe.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3201206208200200/Losing-Control-Heaven-Hill-3-by-Laramie-Briscoe.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3205204209203202/Ten-Reasons-Not-To-Die-by-RiceLover.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1201202207208205/The-Reasons-by-Kevin-Craig.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1204205209201207/A-Million-Reasons-by-A-J-Nuest.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/12002022

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