Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46240e44eee8587e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.1 KB Created: 2019-06-04 10:14:33 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 7db0e66551743df70a606c0c7976c3e6 SHA-1: 579c593b8d3c5ad7c9f6080d82b0fe402f3749bc SHA-256: 46240e44eee8587e3acb0c9866bda105208994cac2adef14c8a29c1c6c541fd1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to book titles, which is indicative of a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' confirms this, suggesting the PDF is generated for SEO manipulation or to distribute content from the dominant host 'cefasfese.4pu.com'. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific intent beyond link distribution.

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/4738732735733/First-Love-by-Ivan-Turgenev.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9736734734732734/Faust-by-Ivan-Turgenev.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2736735736736738/First-Love-by-Ivan-Turgenev.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3734733735732737/First-Love-and-Other-Stories-by-Ivan-Turgenev.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730739738734731737/Fathers-and-Sons-by-Ivan-Turgenev.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5730733737737738/Fathers-and-Sons-by-Ivan-Turgenev.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3739739737730738/Fathers-and-Sons-by-Ivan-Turgenev.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6735730736732730/Fathers-and-Sons-by-Ivan-Turgenev.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730734734736731731/Rauch-Roman-by-Ivan-Turgenev.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3733731739738/Fathers-and-Sons-by-Ivan-Turgenev.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4734730739734732/A-Lear-of-the-Steppes-by-Ivan-Turgenev.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5739730730735739/Rudin-a-Romance-and-a-King-Lear-of-the-Steppes-by-Ivan-Turgenev.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9736734738731739/V-ter-und-S-hne---Ein-Klassiker-der-Weltliteratur-Vollst-ndige-deutsche-Ausgabe-Zusammensto-der-Generationen-by-Ivan-Turgenev.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5737731732733739/Turgenev-I-Dostoevski-Turgenev-And-Dostoevsky-by-Yuri-Nikolski.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730738736730730731/Haw-by-Ivan-Brunetti.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6731736733736735/Cam-Boi-by-Ivan-T-Dickinson.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4737733730738739/Under-the-Yoke-by-Ivan-Vazov.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4735733730736734/Fox-Mykyta-by-Ivan-Franko.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9730732739737731/Mem-ria-by-Ivan-IZQUIERDO.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730730738738731737/My-First-Loves-by-Ivan-Kl-ma.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5739730730735739/Rudin-a-Romance-and-a-King-Lear-o