Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cc69c94a0c0565a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.8 KB Created: 2019-05-03 20:28:40 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: cf7e50a26da95a9aebdb04cd67974237 SHA-1: d2e4eb7e02e27af20e354ba87da4db5a48e14466 SHA-256: 2cc69c94a0c0565a703adb2a951568c2b7b80cf11a89459e3a5589a11ecc714d
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links pointing to external PDF files, all hosted on the domain 'cefasfese.4pu.com'. This technique is often used for SEO poisoning or to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with a high probability.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9798

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/6737733737736739/-O-Cirque-du-Soleil-at-the-Bellagio-by-Veronique-Vial.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3737730731735739/Underfoot-Bellagio-2-by-Leanne-Banks.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2734735737734735/Cirque-Du-Freak-Boxed-Set-2-Cirque-Du-Freak-5-8-by-Darren-Shan.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6737733736735737/Cirque-Du-Freak-Boxed-Set-3-Cirque-Du-Freak-9-12-by-Darren-Shan.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1736735731736735/Cirque-Du-Freak-Boxed-Set-1-Cirque-Du-Freak-1-4-by-Darren-Shan.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5739732736734/The-Fifth-Vial-by-Michael-Palmer.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4735738739738736/Poison-Most-Vial-by-Benedict-Carey.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1736736738730732/Ishtaq-The-Second-Vial-by-Thomas-Fournier.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2732734734/A-Vial-of-Life-A-Shade-of-Vampire-21-by-Bella-Forrest.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5739734739734/Beside-the-Sea-by-V-ronique-Olmi.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5733732739739730/Veronique-by-F-Rossignol.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5733732739734733/Gardeners-by-V-ronique-Bizot.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1738735739731738/The-Shadow-of-Imana-by-V-ronique-Tadjo.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5733732739739738/Chip-Kidd-by-Veronique-Vienne.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1734732738739736/Kick-the-Animal-Out-by-V-ronique-Ovald-.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6735736737732735/Enfance-de-dictateurs-by-V-ronique-Chalmet.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732733739736730/Mon-gentil-voisin-by-V-ronique-Constant.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5734734736736734/Soleil-by-Vendela-Vida.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7737736733732739/Mamy-Wata-and-the-Monster-by-V-ronique-Tadjo.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5733732738739737/Veronique-and-Murray-by-William-Byron-Hillman.pdf