Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 363d9de0f0802177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.0 KB Created: 2020-01-04 08:27:56 +00:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 428de46457a6ba919373dd3163215d32 SHA-1: 4a41e9c71b2c96a86c4588ace97c4665c8c57b6b SHA-256: 363d9de0f0802177345d987ee3332ff8ab16eb7152d7b389d9475a051a078360
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. These links point to various book titles hosted on the same domain, suggesting a potential SEO poisoning or link farm tactic. The embedded URLs are likely intended to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages, although the specific URLs themselves were flagged as benign in this analysis.

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/4730733738732738/The-Academy-Making-of-a-Ruler-The-Eagle-King-s-Academy-1-by-C-C-Mon-.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4735738736734735/The-Academy-Volume-One-The-Academy-1-3-by-Maxine-Mansfield.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1731738736730735731/The-Umbrella-Academy-Suite-Apocaliptica-Segundo-Acto-Umbrella-Academy-edici-n-r-stica-2-by-Gerard-Way.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8736734732732735/Star-Wars-Jedi-Academy-The-Phantom-Bully-Jedi-Academy-3-by-Jeffrey-Brown.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1732733739731736/King-of-Bad-Super-Villain-Academy-1-by-Kai-Strand.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4733737733731733/Vampire-Academy-Dimitri-s-POV-Vampire-Academy-1-2-by-Shelby-Petrie.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730736735734737/The-Covert-Academy-The-Covert-Academy-1-by-Peter-Laurent.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2733730734736734/Vampire-Academy-Vampire-Academy-1-by-Richelle-Mead.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6736736732/Academy-of-Assassins-Academy-of-Assassins-1-by-Stacey-Brutger.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3732738736734739/Vampire-Academy-Vampire-Academy-1-by-Richelle-Mead.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1734733739738737/Princess-Academy-Princess-Academy-1-by-Shannon-Hale.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7730737735738/Vampire-Academy-Vampire-Academy-1-by-Richelle-Mead.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1731736731734739/Nightmare-Academy-Nightmare-Academy-1-by-Dean-Lorey.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4734739732738/Vampire-Academy-Vampire-Academy-1-by-Richelle-Mead.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3732731732733/Vampire-Academy-Vampire-Academy-1-by-Richelle-Mead.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2732731730731732/Vampire-Academy-Vampire-Academy-1-5-by-Richelle-Mead.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9736733732/Vampire-Academy-The-Graphic-Novel-Vampire-Academy-The-Graphic-Novel-1-by-Richelle-Mead.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1732731730731736/Sherlock-Academy-Sherlock-Academy-1-by-F-C-Shaw.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5739735731739735/Caster-Academy-Caster-Academy-1-by-abbytheshadowhunter.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1732734735731734/Monster-Seeker-2-Rise-of-the-Phoenix-King-Monster-Seeker-Academy-2-by-Ian-Michael-Terry.pdf