Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f302fdecdda57585…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.7 KB Created: 2019-04-30 17:51:52 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 87ec71cdc4708f5338a24e2d52542bd1 SHA-1: 37f54b9ce50c6393f106be50e1ce9d48410bc900 SHA-256: f302fdecdda57585c277e6ee237cc38fe3a73dc23251fe1afbab098d7638751a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF documents, hosted on a dynamic DNS domain. This technique is often used for SEO poisoning or to distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the direct user-facing 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://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3208205206208209/The-Oxford-History-of-the-British-Empire-Volume-IV-The-Twentieth-Century-Twentieth-Century-Vol-4-by-Judith-M-Brown.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/2201203204201/Twentieth-Century-Pleasures-Prose-on-Poetry-by-Robert-Hass.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/4207208204205203/My-Suburban-Shtetl-A-Novel-about-Life-in-a-Twentieth-Century-Jewish-American-Village-by-Robert-Rand.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1201200202201200/Our-More-Perfect-Union-From-Eighteenth-Century-Principles-to-Twentieth-Century-Practice-by-Arthur-Norman-Holcombe.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/4205207201205/From-the-End-of-the-Twentieth-Century-by-John-M-Ford.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/8206200202208204/Art-of-the-Twentieth-Century-by-Ingo-F-Walther.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1202204201209205/C-B-DeMille-The-Man-Who-Invented-Hollywood-by-Robert-Hammond.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1205204206208208/Paris-in-the-Twentieth-Century-by-Jules-Verne.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3202209202201202/Allergic-to-the-Twentieth-Century-by-Peter-Radetsky.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1205207208203/Other-Criteria-Confrontations-with-Twentieth-Century-Art-by-Leo-Steinberg.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1200202200205202206/Saga-Into-the-Twentieth-Century-by-Louise-Haeger.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/9202203205205/In-Europe-Travels-Through-the-Twentieth-Century-by-Geert-Mak.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1209201200208202/Five-Points-The-Nineteenth-Century-New-York-City-Neighborhood-That-Invented-Tap-Dance-Stole-Elections-and-Became-the-World-s-Most-Notorious-Slum-by-Tyler-Anbinder.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1201204209203209208/Eight-Twentieth-Century-Russian-Plays-by-Timothy-Langen.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/6202200202200206/Twentieth-Century-Ethical-Theory-by-Steven-M-Cahn.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1200200204207200202/Twentieth-Century-World-History-by-William-J-Duiker.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1201200200207208206/Twentieth-Century-Women-Poems-by-Arthur-Vogelsang.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/7202209200201200/Rwanda-and-Genocide-in-the-Twentieth-Century-by-Alain-Destexhe.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/3203207206206209/Twentieth-Century-Scottish-Poems-by-Douglas-Dunn.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/1205200207208203/London-in-the-Twentieth-Century-A-City-and-Its-People-by-Jerry-White.pdf
    • http://xiixmcuin.linkpc.net/4205207201205/From-the-End-of-the-Twentieth-Century-by