Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbec75b47e8c1991…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB Created: 2019-05-01 18:30:00 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 69ecfc965ab033c700ea37b8f59a2de4 SHA-1: 637c47f95e94b1da622cc2e856166494f0d8dc6b SHA-256: fbec75b47e8c19919cd4f8184f60eb6cdb1ddd81ca493c45fb78156984779a5f
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file exhibits a critical heuristic firing for a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs. These URLs, while currently labeled as benign, are structured to appear as book titles and authors, suggesting a potential SEO poisoning or redirection tactic. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these links, likely to direct users to malicious sites or to manipulate search engine results. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific payload.

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/8097098095097090/The-Best-American-Short-Stories-1979-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4094094094095092/The-Oxford-Book-of-American-Short-Stories-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7095093095091099/The-Ecco-Anthology-of-Contemporary-American-Short-Fiction-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5094097097092099/Fauve-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/8094098097098094/Les-Chutes-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4099090096097094/Rape-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3090098099090/The-Accursed-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4099093094094098/The-Sacrifice-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3095095091099/The-Falls-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1098092097095098/Zombie-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4098094099098098/Childwold-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5096098097092096/Carthage-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/6095096095090/Solstice-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9092094093099/Little-Bird-of-Heaven-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1095091093098/Because-It-Is-Bitter-and-Because-It-Is-My-Heart-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2092097099093091/Two-or-Three-Things-I-Forgot-to-Tell-You-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3099093091099093/I-Lock-My-Door-upon-Myself-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9097093/Jack-of-Spades-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5096098098093096/Dear-Husband-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4094093093090099/The-Gravedigger-s-Daughter-A-Novel-by-Joyce-Carol-Oates.pdf

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