Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2affd42b6cea062f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.5 KB Created: 2019-06-04 14:57:49 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7 First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: e139f7557c1d4b5d98b2fc13455a2381 SHA-1: d6c5777e02b6bffb14b385e2e9c3290464726047 SHA-256: 2affd42b6cea062f7446a523a69b32c931bebd4ebd096cf1561a3fc164cde260
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a 'link farm', which is a common technique for SEO manipulation or distributing malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence suggest malicious intent, likely related to driving traffic or phishing. The specific nature of the links points towards a potential SEO spam or content distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

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.
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    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3737731733732737/So-Much-to-Tell-You-by-John-Marsden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7734736731737/Millie-by-John-Marsden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7734732735730/The-Rabbits-by-John-Marsden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7734739735739/Home-and-Away-by-John-Marsden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2735737730733733/Winter-by-John-Marsden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2737734738735738/Everything-I-Know-About-Writing-by-John-Marsden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9736730737734735/The-Great-Gatenby-by-John-Marsden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4737739731735737/Incurable-The-Ellie-Chronicles-2-by-John-Marsden.pdfIn PDF document text
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    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4731733737734/While-I-Live-The-Ellie-Chronicles-1-by-John-Marsden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4731735734739/Burning-For-Revenge-Tomorrow-5-by-John-Marsden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4737735732733/Incurable-The-Ellie-Chronicles-2-by-John-Marsden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4735734737736730/The-Dead-Of-The-Night-The-Tomorrow-Series-2-by-John-Marsden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5730736739738733/Letters-from-Inside-the-Communist-Party-to-Louis-Althusser-by-Maria-Antonietta-Macciocchi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5731736734730730/Mariners-Are-Warned-John-Lort-Stokes-and-lt-I-gt-H-M-S-Beagle-lt-I-gt-in-Australia-1837-1843-by-Marsden-Hordern.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3737732731739732/Tomorrow-When-the-War-Began-The-Tomorrow-Series-1-by-John-Marsden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5735731731732735/Paradise-Lost-By-John-Milton-Illustrated---Original-amp-Unabridged-Free-Audiobook-Inside-by-John-Milton.pdfIn PDF document text
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    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4730735736733/Bright-Star-Love-Letters-and-Poems-of-John-Keats-to-Fanny-Brawne-by-John-Keats.pdfIn PDF document text