Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 409ef8accd9f2c1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.1 KB Created: 2019-11-07 11:16:32 +00:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: ae941cf13880f2f55ee5e822ace3c2a0 SHA-1: 245fee38cc1d6d8d01667a8fab2aa864be4e51e5 SHA-256: 409ef8accd9f2c1fcf1d553a4c3159d2c3217f83c56582cee68c8655f027c43f
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 to external PDF files, primarily hosted on the domain 'cefasfese.4pu.com'. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or a lure to a malicious site, as flagged by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links and the suspicious domain suggest an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9775

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/9731738737732737/Theological-Aesthetics-A-Reader-by-Gesa-Elsbeth-Thiessen.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9731738738736737/Theological-Aesthetics-A-Reader-by-Gesa-E-Thiessen.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730738734739733739/Astrologie-und-Liebesleben-by-Elsbeth-Ebertin.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2733735730736733/Hope-amp-Shiny-Things-by-Celesta-Thiessen.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9731738739734734/Der-Kampf-um-R-aak-by-Gesa-Wolkenhauer.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3732731735731739/Armchair-Reader-The-Mammoth-Reader-Super-Size-Stories-amp-Incredible-Information-by-Jeff-Bahr.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1731730734736730735/Ballantine-Reader-s-Circle-Reader-by-Jane-Smiley.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6730732736739/Liebesbrise---Zwischen-Ebbe-und-Flut-by-Hilke-Gesa-Bu-mann.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9731738738731734/Cultural-Exchange-in-Seventeenth-Century-France-and-England-by-Gesa-Stedman.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9731738738730732/Metaphors-of-Dispossession-American-Beginnings-and-the-Translation-of-Empire-1492-1637-by-Gesa-Mackenthun.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9731738739735738/Handel-in-Theorie-Und-Praxis-Festschrift-Zum-60-Geburtstag-Von-Prof-Dr-Dirk-Mohlenbruch-by-Gesa-Crockford.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7737733731732739/Reader-s-Digest-Condensed-Books-Volume-2-1994-212-by-Reader-39-s-Digest-Association.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6737731732737/Reader-s-Digest-Condensed-Books-1993-1-Volume-205-by-Reader-39-s-Digest-Association.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9731738739735739/Konventionelle-Barrieren-Fur-Ein-Universitares-Studium-Der-Frauen-Im-Mittelalter-Frauenfeindliche-Denk--Und-Verhaltensmuster-in--Le-Livre-de-La-Cite-Des-Dames--by-Gesa-Born.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9739734739737739/Aesthetics-A-Z-by-Eran-Guter.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9736738731735731/Aesthetics-by-Nicolai-Hartmann.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7730730734733738/Georges-Bernanos-The-Theological-Source-of-His-Art-by-Michael-R-Tobin.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3739737735737737/Philosophical-amp-Theological-Writings-by-Gotthold-Ephraim-Lessing.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7730730735733732/Georges-Bernanos-The-Theological-Source-of-His-Art-by-Michael-Tobin.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5738733738736731/Showing-the-Spirit-A-Theological-Exposition-of-1-Corinthians-12-14-by-D-A-Carson.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9731738738730732/Metaphors-of-Dispossession-American-B