Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 512909dcca3c31f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.7 KB Created: 2019-05-07 06:21:44 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7 First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: bbf08c8e67ad100bcd01df5bb09e3a29 SHA-1: 0236d1bd90839d26a98cddfa676a99de6bc1958e SHA-256: 512909dcca3c31f310fabe88b4c99deafc77196bb4b70c2dc917f1465a3a168c
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. While the URLs themselves appear to link to benign book titles, the sheer volume and structure suggest a malicious intent, possibly for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9920

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/2735732737735732/Iorich-Vlad-Taltos-12-by-Steven-Brust.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5738731730737/Phoenix-Vlad-Taltos-5-by-Steven-Brust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7739738731733/The-Book-of-Jhereg-Vlad-Taltos-1-3-by-Steven-Brust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8738737733739733/Articles-on-Dragaera-Including-Steven-Brust-Jhereg-Dzur-Teckla-Jhereg-Novel-Yendi-Novel-Athyra-Phoenix-Novel-Taltos-Steven-Brust-Novel-Orca-Novel-Dragon-Steven-Brust-Novel-Issola-Khaavren-Romances-by-Hephaestus-Books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738732736734735/The-Desecrator-by-Steven-Brust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2738731734737738/The-Gypsy-by-Steven-Brust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2739734735739736/Good-Guys-by-Steven-Brust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4736730732731730/Brokedown-Palace-by-Steven-Brust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3734734732734733/To-Reign-In-Hell-by-Steven-Brust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8738737733739731/Steven-Brust-s-Jhereg---The-Graphic-Novel-by-Alan-Zelenetz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3737739735730734/Five-Hundred-Years-After-Khaavren-Romances-2-by-Steven-Brust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1735736731736731/The-Phoenix-Guards-Khaavren-Romances-1-by-Steven-Brust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3735736739737736/The-Phoenix-Guards-Khaavren-Romances-1-by-Steven-Brust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3731735736732736/Sethra-Lavode-Khaavren-Romances-3-The-Viscount-of-Adrilankha-3-by-Steven-Brust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3735737730730733/Sethra-Lavode-Khaavren-Romances-3-The-Viscount-of-Adrilankha-3-by-Steven-Brust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8736734738734735/Vlad-Tepes-El-Verdadero-Dracula-Vlad-the-Impaler-by-Roberto-Mares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730734734738732731/Summary-amp-Study-Guide-Taltos-Lives-of-the-Mayfair-Witches-by-Anne-Rice-by-BookRags.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738732737734737/Teufelchen-in-der-Brust-by-Miriam-K-the.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8736734738731733/Vampire-Vlad-V-1-by-Mit-Sandru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3731737736731735/Vlad-The-Last-Confession-by-C-C-Humphreys.pdfIn PDF document text