Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f29c160356c5861d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.3 KB Created: 2019-05-07 03:59:46 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 5188b1d7690fa6c3583c896bb9de769b SHA-1: 051221239ffe9b60442e71e7e72073e28936736f SHA-256: f29c160356c5861dda0ce73753489fd2eea5a9ae5afa8446cfdfad4f87ba1ba0
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. These URLs point to a domain that appears to be used for hosting numerous PDF files with numeric slugs in their names. While the individual URLs were labeled as confirmed benign, the sheer volume and pattern suggest a link farm or a distribution mechanism for potentially malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample, limiting further analysis of its behavior.

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/6095095097095093/Lauren-Daigle---Look-Up-Child-by-Lauren-Daigle.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095095099099095/For-Sure-by-France-Daigle.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095095098095090/The-Emerald-Key-by-Christine-Daigle.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2097095098096/I-Will-Never-Not-Ever-Eat-a-Tomato-by-Lauren-Child.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3098090092098098/The-Princess-and-the-Pea-by-Lauren-Child.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2095093092098099/I-Am-Not-Sleepy-and-I-Will-Not-Go-to-Bed-by-Lauren-Child.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1096094093098090/that-pesky-rat-by-Lauren-Child.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095095098094098/The-World-of-Penguins-by-Evelyne-Daigle.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095095098095093/Cagun-Self-Taught-by-Jules-O-Daigle.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095095099099097/A-Carnival-RomanceTM-by-Brianne-Daigle.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4099090099096095/Real-Life-by-France-Daigle.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095095098095096/The-Long-Hunt-by-Ashton-Daigle.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095095099098099/Goblin-Stories-by-Arthur-Daigle.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4091090098092098/But-Excuse-Me-That-Is-My-Book-by-Lauren-Child.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4098090098092095/Clarice-Bean-That-s-Me-by-Lauren-Child.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2096098099093091/Who-s-Afraid-of-the-Big-Bad-Book-by-Lauren-Child.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4099090091091094/One-and-Only-The-Freedom-of-Having-an-Only-Child-and-the-Joy-of-Being-One-by-Lauren-Sandler.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2096097090094099/Alawahea-The-Azellian-Affairs-1-by-Sara-L-Daigle.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095096090092097/That-Deaf-Guy-A-Wild-Ride-by-Matt-Daigle.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095096090093091/Les-fleurs-sauvages-du-Qu-bec-by-Lise-Daigle.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4091090098092098/But-Excuse