Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe410bb1426d8bfd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.0 KB Created: 2019-05-02 01:18:52 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 6980e1685f6c375cc9354705d698e466 SHA-1: 18a620620fbf99ae102688cca2de6a71fb323883 SHA-256: fe410bb1426d8bfdec52ce0c9ce585d628cdcc42623d192a0ec088adbb49a6e5
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 pointing to external PDF documents on the domain 'loaminoo.linkpc.net'. This is indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic, which can be used to distribute malicious content or improve the ranking of malicious sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample, 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/1097091092096091/Maps-Life-According-to-Maps-1-by-Nash-Summers.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2093095093095099/Lane-s-Life-According-to-Maps-3-by-Nash-Summers.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090094093090095093/Petermann-s-Maps-Carto-Bibliography-Of-The-Maps-In-Petermanns-Geographische-Mitteilungen-1855-1945-by-Jan-Smits.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3092092094099095/London-A-Life-in-Maps-by-Peter-Whitfield.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5095092094099/Journey-with-No-Maps-A-Life-of-P-K-Page-by-Sandra-Djwa.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7093094094098096/Peloponnese-terrain-maps-by-Terrain-Maps.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/9097099091098098/There-s-a-Map-on-My-Lap-All-About-Maps-by-Tish-Rabe.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3093097093097090/Journey-Without-Maps-by-Graham-Greene.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/5091091096099092/The-Scale-of-Maps-by-Bel-n-Gopegui.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2095097095091097/Journey-Without-Maps-by-Graham-Greene.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3091094099095094/Maps-and-Globes-by-Jack-Knowlton.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2097099091095098/The-Insufficiency-of-Maps-by-Nora-Pierce.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1097095094093092/Essential-Maps-for-the-Lost-by-Deb-Caletti.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1090090093098092/Ontario-s-History-in-Maps-by-Louis-Gentilcore.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/1091093097097090092/Geological-Maps-of-the-Montalban-Region-by-A-C-Van-Ginkel.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/4097098091097/Why-Men-Don-t-Listen-and-Women-Can-t-Read-Maps-How-We-re-Different-and-What-to-Do-About-It-by-Allan-Pease.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/3098097091095096/The-Changed-Man-Maps-in-a-Mirror-1-by-Orson-Scott-Card.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/7091092093091096/Maps-and-Mirrors-Topologies-of-Art-and-Politics-by-Steve-Martinot.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2095094096094098/Maps-of-Time-An-Introduction-to-Big-History-by-David-Christian.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2099094097090092/Moon-Letters-Maps-Poems-by-Jennifer-S-Cheng.pdf
    • http://loaminoo.linkpc.net/2097099091095098/The-In