Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec6c32037c4a6a63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.3 KB Created: 2019-04-30 04:43:55 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 446275f85a13e561ab6df166f3198013 SHA-1: 79a19f5a6418b648ebcebad5e45a9e21f9fed4b9 SHA-256: ec6c32037c4a6a6364c5561e9ce97347660aa5dfcb8a8392ef97c58b5fa8fa9d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, indicating a mass of external links. The embedded URLs, while many are marked as benign, are part of a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be SEO manipulation or potentially distributing further malicious content through these links. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

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/1090097097099099092/Philip-Ardagh-s-Book-of-Kings-Queens-Emperors-and-Rotten-Wart-Nosed-Commoners-by-Philip-Ardagh.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3091094096099094/Knights-And-Castles-by-Will-Osborne.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090097097099098099/Bodies-by-Philip-Ardagh.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090097098091091095/The-Red-Dragons-of-Gressingham-by-Philip-Ardagh.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4094097099090097/The-Archaeologists-Handbook-by-Philip-Ardagh.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090097097099099093/The-Further-Adventures-of-Eddie-Dickens-by-Philip-Ardagh.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090097098090094095/Wow-Ideas-That-Changed-the-World-by-Philip-Ardagh.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090097097099093093/The-Story-of-Doctor-Dolittle-by-Philip-Ardagh.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5092099092095091/Heir-of-Mystery-Unlikely-Exploits-2-by-Philip-Ardagh.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5092099091098092/The-Fall-of-Fergal-The-First-Unlikely-Exploit-Unlikely-Exploits-1-by-Philip-Ardagh.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5090099090090096/Stinking-Rich-And-Just-Plain-Stinky-by-Philip-Ardagh.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090097097099093095/The-Scandalous-Life-of-the-Lawless-Sisters-Criminally-Illustrated-With-What-Was-To-Hand-by-Philip-Ardagh.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3091094098090092/Castles-on-the-Sand-Shattered-Castles-1-by-E-M-Tippetts.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8091092095098092/Castles-of-Britain-and-Ireland-The-Ultimate-Reference-Book-A-Region-By-Region-Guide-to-over-1-350-Castles-by-Peter-Somerset-Fry.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090097097099093096/Ancient-Greek-Myths-amp-Legends-World-Book-Myths-amp-Legends-Series-by-Philip-Ardagh.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090097097099094090/Norse-Myths-amp-Legends-World-Book-Myths-amp-Legends-Series-by-Philip-Ardagh.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090097097099094095/Celtic-Myths-amp-Legends-World-Book-Myths-amp-Legends-Series-by-Philip-Ardagh.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1097095093098090/The-Blessed-Knights-Secret-Knights-2-by-Mary-Ting.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091092092097095/Ethereal-Knights-Celestra-Knights-1-by-Addison-Moore.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3090090090091/The-Chosen-Knights-Secret-Knights-1-by-Mary-Ting.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/50900990900