Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c74c4141f9f38e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.0 KB Created: 2019-06-13 14:24:32 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 44cc434e0181027524194f9e6a651443 SHA-1: eacea5e338bd8d3448049e856bd0551620602054 SHA-256: 2c74c4141f9f38e4c974c49843524eb79911ea83d2c9baa1382e520c0e71718f
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 as a link farm. While the URLs themselves are currently classified as benign, the sheer volume and the nature of the heuristic firing suggest a malicious intent, possibly for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities. The attack pattern is inferred from the link farm heuristic.

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://cefasfese.4pu.com/3734732736730737/Using-Econometrics-A-Practical-Guide-by-A-H-Studenmund.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4736730730732739/The-Practical-Guide-to-Trying-Not-to-Die-by-Sam-Schooler.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3738734736733737/A-Practical-Guide-to-Racism-by-C-H-Dalton.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4738739736734733/Ramadan-A-Practical-Guide-by-Omar-Ali-Zafar.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8733732733731732/A-Practical-Guide-to-Self-Hypnosis-by-Melvin-Powers.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1731736738737738735/A-Practical-Guide-to-Transportation-and-Logistics-by-Michael-Stroh.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3739731733736733/Mindfulness-A-Practical-Guide-to-Awakening-by-Joseph-Goldstein.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3738736736738735/Back-to-One-A-Practical-Guide-for-Psychotherapists-by-Sheldon-B-Kopp.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730731737736735732/Restaurant-Startup-A-Practical-Guide-by-Ravi-Wazir.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6731733738739737/The-Practical-Programmer-s-Guide-to-HTML-amp-CSS-by-David-Hikari.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6731735732734732/Promoting-Health-A-Practical-Guide-by-Angela-Scriven.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730736736738730731/The-Troubled-Adolescent-A-Practical-Guide-by-Gregory-Hacke.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1731738738736735731/Living-Gnosis-A-Practical-Guide-to-Gnostic-Christianity-by-Tau-Malachi.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738737730736/Happiness-Beyond-Thought-A-Practical-Guide-to-Awakening-by-Gary-Weber.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2734738736736737/Freedom-Is-Your-Nature-A-Practical-Guide-to-Inner-Transformation-by-Christine-Wushke.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2737735733730737/The-English-Tenses-Practical-Grammar-Guide-by-Phil-Williams.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730738737731735738/Yarn-from-Wild-Nettles-A-Practical-Guide-by-Birte-Ford.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1732732738736735/Practical-SQL-A-Beginner-s-Guide-to-Storytelling-with-Data-by-Anthony-DeBarros.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4732738736732733/The-Voice-of-Knowledge-A-Practical-Guide-to-Inner-Peace-by-Miguel-Ruiz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7731730735730735/Engage-A-Practical-Guide-to-Evangelism-Member-Book-by-J-D-Greear.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730736736738730731/The-Troubled-Adolescent-A-Practical-Guide-by-Gr

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