Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f298548390209a11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.6 KB Created: 2019-05-07 08:32:52 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 506d73e336f1b0daf699f4bce1bc1a1e SHA-1: 65fcfef8cf2465fac57cd5a202514808bdecc3c6 SHA-256: f298548390209a11a48723402c1ab953831ed9f06da0f516b408a18c4bdbd180
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file exhibits a critical heuristic firing for a link farm, containing 21 embedded URLs. These URLs predominantly point to book titles hosted on the 'loaminoo.linkpc.net' domain. While the individual URLs are marked as benign, the sheer volume and structure suggest a malicious intent, possibly for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

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/4097092091097098/Diamond-Heart-by-Tricia-Jones.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4094092096095095/Wild-Irish-Heart-Mystic-Cove-1-by-Tricia-O-39-Malley.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8096097091094/The-Wicked-Heart-by-Christopher-Pike.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4093095097093091/Your-Wicked-Heart-Rules-for-the-Reckless-0-5-by-Meredith-Duran.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6090095090096094/Take-You-Away-Her-Wicked-Heart-1-5-The-Cunningham-Family-3-5-by-Ember-Casey.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4096097094094094/Lost-and-Found-Her-Wicked-Heart-2-The-Cunningham-Family-4-by-Ember-Casey.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3090099099090090/The-Wicked-Years-Complete-Collection-Wicked-Son-of-a-Witch-A-Lion-Among-Men-and-Out-of-Oz-by-Gregory-Maguire.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3095096097096098/Pure-Wicked-Wicked-Lovers-9-5-1001-Dark-Nights-25-by-Shayla-Black.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3095097097090093/Wicked-The-Life-and-Times-of-the-Wicked-Witch-of-the-West-by-Gregory-Maguire.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1094094095094/The-Wicked-Wicked-Ladies-in-the-Haunted-House-by-Mary-Chase.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1094096097094091/Wicked-Favor-The-Wicked-Horse-Vegas-1-by-Sawyer-Bennett.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3098093097090093/Wicked-Bond-The-Wicked-Horse-5-by-Sawyer-Bennett.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4099091099097094/Wicked-2-Legacy-amp-Spellbound-Wicked-3-4-by-Nancy-Holder.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1097091091095096/Wicked-Desires-Wicked-Affairs-1-by-Eliza-Lloyd.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1094098096097099/Wicked-The-Complete-Series-Wicked-1-4-by-Lily-Graison.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2090091093093092/Wicked-My-Love-Wicked-Little-Secrets-2-by-Susanna-Ives.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2099095091094092/Every-Witch-Way-But-Wicked-Wicked-Witches-of-the-Midwest-2-by-Amanda-M-Lee.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4095095093092091/Wicked-Lies-Wicked-2-Colony-4-by-Lisa-Jackson.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3099090096090095/Lady-Gone-Wicked-Wicked-Secrets-2-by-Elizabeth-Bright.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3092096097090095/Wicked-Lust-The-Wicked-Horse-2-by-Sawyer-Bennett.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3095097097090093/Wicked-The-Life-and-Times-of-the-Wicked-Witch-