Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b5f82ca7b300c8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.3 KB Created: 2019-04-30 08:37:54 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 8912d8107104c2a11b713db82f460f03 SHA-1: 7d985149915fca63f149a23f5c7b24dbff5f368a SHA-256: 4b5f82ca7b300c8c31b039890e63953499848697675fd1303967da02221f2135
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to external PDF documents. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a link farm, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to drive traffic to these external resources. While the URLs themselves are currently marked as benign, the sheer volume and the nature of the heuristic suggest a malicious intent, possibly for SEO poisoning or to host further malicious content. 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/3736733732738732/Mary-Magdalene-Beckons-Join-The-River-of-Love-Book-One-of-The-Magdalene-Teachings-by-Mercedes-Kirkel.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6735734731732739/The-Holy-Book-of-Mary-Magdalene-The-Path-of-the-Grail-Steward-by-Jennifer-Reif.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730737737733734730/The-Women-of-Easter-Encounter-the-Savior-with-Mary-of-Bethany-Mary-of-Nazareth-and-Mary-Magdalene-by-Liz-Curtis-Higgs.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6735735739737738/Mary-Magdalene-by-Maurice-Maeterlinck.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1735730736733731/Disciple-A-Novel-Of-Mary-Magdalene-by-Susan-Little.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1735732732736731/Mary-Magdalene-by-Diana-Wallis-Taylor.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730730730733733738/Noli-Me-Tangere-Mary-Magdalene-One-Person-Many-Images-by-Barbara-Baert.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8731732739738734/Secrets-in-Qumran-The-Story-of-Jesus-and-Mary-Magdalene-by-Beverley-A-Young.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3739737735734739/Spirit-of-the-Red-Candle-Journal-of-Mary-Magdalene-The-Scarlet-Triangle-1-by-Betty-Slade.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4735730735730732/Peter-Paul-amp-Mary-Magdalene-The-Followers-of-Jesus-in-History-amp-Legend-by-Bart-D-Ehrman.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7732733735734733/The-Life-of-St-Mary-Magdalene-of-Pazzi-a-Carmelite-Nunn-Newly-Translated-Out-of-Italian-by-the-Reverend-Father-Lezin-de-Sainte-Scholastique-Provinc-by-Thomas-Smith.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3737738734734/Magdalene-by-Marie-Howe.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730731737738/The-Will-Magdalene-1-by-Kristen-Ashley.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6732734730/The-Time-in-Between-Magdalene-3-by-Kristen-Ashley.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4735738733739732/Soaring-Magdalene-2-by-Kristen-Ashley.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4738738730737732/A-Personal-Devil-Magdalene-la-Batarde-2-by-Roberta-Gellis.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4738738739736733/Chains-of-Folly-Magdalene-la-Batarde-4-by-Roberta-Gellis.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3735730735737734/Only-Through-Love-Men-of-Cane-River-3-by-Mary-Jane-Hathaway.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2731734738735/Revolution-The-Year-I-Fell-in-Love-and-Went-to-Join-the-War-by-Deb-Olin-Unferth.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2732730735730734/Ten-Teachings-for-One-World-Wisdom-from-Mother-Mary-by-Gina-Lake.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730730730733733738/Noli-Me-Tangere-Mary-Magda