Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1ac4b9c5e23f54c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.9 KB Created: 2019-05-02 01:44:34 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 7a55d317a0abc000594f480a0ef47645 SHA-1: df3e4daeec0bb8e9adf4e0653e400263d6206d9d SHA-256: f1ac4b9c5e23f54cdf9cbce3987f3fb3133cd63dd35ea9c94e6de1385d10c097
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a link farm, indicating a large number of embedded external URLs. The document body confirms the presence of these URLs, which are likely intended to direct users to malicious content or phishing sites. While the specific intent of the linked sites is not fully clear, the sheer volume and the 'confirmed_benign' label on some suggest a potential for SEO manipulation or a large-scale phishing operation.

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/6091096097095092/Systematic-Catalogue-of-Plants-Growing-in-the-Open-Air-in-the-Garden-of-Thomas-Hanbury-F-L-S-Knight-of-the-Order-of-St-Maurice-and-St-Lazarus-and-Officer-of-the-Cross-of-the-Crown-of-Italy-Palazzo-Orengo-La-Mortola-Near-Ventimiglia-Italy-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095090098096098/Invaders-The-Chronowarp-Invaders-Series-Book-2-by-Vaughn-Heppner.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5097094096093095/Eating-Italy-A-Culinary-Adventure-through-Italy-s-Best-Meals-by-Jeff-Michaud.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3098095093091096/It-Happened-in-Italy-Untold-Stories-of-How-the-People-of-Italy-Defied-the-Horrors-of-the-Holocaust-by-Elizabeth-Bettina.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3090095091093093/Lost-In-Italy-Italy-Intrigue-1-by-Stacey-Joy-Netzel.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095090099098090/Invaders-of-the-Rokujouma-Volume-3-Invaders-of-the-Rokujouma-3-by-Takehaya.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7096091093094096/The-Reunion-by-P-D-Hodkin.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7096091093095091/The-Creek-the-Story-of-Dog-by-Gene-Hodkin.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7096091093099093/Return-Of-A-Runaway-Spirit-by-Gunilla-S-Hodkin.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7096091093094092/Maya-the-Siberian-Husky-Rescue-Dog-by-Faith-Hodkin.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095090099094096/Space-Invaders-by-D-J-McGhee.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095090098099095/The-Invaders-by-Keith-Laumer.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9099097099095093/Invaders-From-Mars-by-Ray-Garton.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095090099095092/Invaders-by-Jack-Dann.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095090099090092/Invaders-Vaz-Gettnor-4-by-Laurence-E-Dahners.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6092093099094098/Bonaparte-s-Invaders-by-Richard-Howard.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095091090094090/Invaders-of-Earth-by-Groff-Conklin.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095091090093096/Space-Invaders-by-Geoffrey-Matthews.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095090099090094/Invaders-from-the-Infinite-by-John-W-Campbell-Jr-.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1094098093090094/Kahramana-and-Invaders-by-Ahmad-Mohamad-Ali.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/70960910