Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 550e1e043bae8555…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.0 KB Created: 2019-05-24 18:01:55 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 3ea2c06aae9554c388e5e82e9482789b SHA-1: 35606d2806968e185405455ac0bca5d13a8d1bf8 SHA-256: 550e1e043bae855533540acf39c3a9b31530e0d51e450f77cb728b1a198be22b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF documents, primarily hosted on the domain 'cefasfese.4pu.com'. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or a SEO poisoning attack, aiming to drive traffic to potentially malicious or unwanted content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the immediate intent beyond the link farm.

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/1738735732733734/Eloise-Wilkin-Stories-by-Eloise-Wilkin.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7736739733733731/Of-Flame-and-Light-Weird-Girls-7-Flame-1-by-Cecy-Robson.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2736736737738738/Promise-of-the-Flame-The-Hidden-Flame-2-by-Sylvia-Engdahl.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3730731735739736/Defender-of-the-Flame-The-Rising-Flame-1-by-Sylvia-Engdahl.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4731731735733730/Demons-of-the-Flame-Sea-Flame-Seas-2-by-Jean-Johnson.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3735730736735732/Flame-Flame-Set-1-by-Connie-Mason.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9731736736737/Grandmama-s-Joy-by-Eloise-Greenfield.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2734739733730737/Prophecy-of-the-Flame---Book-Two-Prophecy-of-the-Flame-2-by-Lynn-Hardy.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9731739739732/Letters-to-Eloise-by-Emily-Williams.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6733738739739733/Birds-of-the-Carolinas-by-Eloise-F-Potter.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8738732731733735/Eloise-The-Absolutely-Essential-by-Kay-Thompson.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9731736737734/Childtimes-A-Three-Generation-Memoir-by-Eloise-Greenfield.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9731732738731/The-Golden-Goblet-by-Eloise-Jarvis-McGraw.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1738734732734731/Hansel-and-Gretel-Little-Golden-Books-by-Eloise-Wilkin.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4731738734734730/Flame-of-Recca-Vol-01-Flame-of-Recca-1-by-Nobuyuki-Anzai.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3730737734734731/The-Guardians-of-the-Flame-Guardians-of-the-Flame-1-3-by-Joel-Rosenberg.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4732731732739/Flame-of-Destiny-Flame-of-Destiny-1-by-Colleen-Helme.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8731733739/Flame-in-the-Mist-Flame-in-the-Mist-1-by-Renee-Ahdieh.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5738733739732735/Brissot-de-Warville-A-Study-in-the-History-of-the-French-Revolution-by-Eloise-1874--Ellery.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4735738738735/The-Wild-Gardener-The-Life-and-Selected-Writings-of-Eloise-Butler-by-Martha-E-Hellander.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1738734732