Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48018cc2bc1c7dcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.4 KB Created: 2019-05-02 05:16:06 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 848705f0ac816ea3f072e0a20a15bb49 SHA-1: 1c79094bf5b35bdc3cc942c704bb523392baa3c8 SHA-256: 48018cc2bc1c7dcbf8736afff5c0dcf3fad8fa8fce743a42101b2ec7e929a03e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, constituting a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates this behavior, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to external sites. While the URLs themselves are currently marked as benign, the sheer volume and the nature of the heuristic suggest a malicious intent, likely to direct users to potentially harmful content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/1735736732730736/The-Eternal-Champion-Eternal-Champion-1-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6731736735736/Von-Bek-Eternal-Champion-2-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7738731734730/The-Eternal-Champion-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3736738736732731/The-Eternal-Champion-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1733738737731731/The-Eternal-Champion-Erekos-1-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1738735736737737/Corum-Tale-of-the-Eternal-Champion-4-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1733731735733737/Elric-The-Stealer-of-Souls-Eternal-Champion-11-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1735735736736737/A-Nomad-of-the-Time-Streams-Eternal-Champion-4-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1735736731734731/Elric-Song-of-the-Black-Sword-Eternal-Champion-5-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7733737732733/Von-Bek---omnibus-of-The-War-Hound-and-the-World-s-Pain-The-City-in-the-Autumn-Stars-The-Dragon-in-the-Sword-and-The-Pleasure-Garden-of-Felipe-Sagittarius-Eternal-Champion-2-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7735734738730737/The-Champion-of-Garathorm-The-Chronicles-of-Castle-Brass-2-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7732737739731/Moorcock-s-Multiverse-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7735734738737739/Lord-Of-The-Spiders-Or-Blades-Of-Mars-Michael-Kane-Vol-2-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730733735735731/Von-Bek-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5732736732730/Behold-the-Man-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3736736738737731/Warlord-of-the-Air-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2735739735732/Gloriana-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7732739734738730/Gloriana-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9739730732739733/Die-See-des-Schicksals-Elric-2-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1733730731737734/King-of-the-City-by-Michael-Moorcock.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7733737732733/Von-Bek---omnibus-of-The-War-Hound-and-the-World-s-Pain-The-City-in-the-Autumn-Stars-The-Dragon-in-the-Sword-and-The-Pleasure-G