Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6be63a9d85d6b744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.9 KB Created: 2019-04-30 10:11:37 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7 First seen: 2020-12-25
MD5: 6db8eb7fb46297a4b47d6df4842df07f SHA-1: e6c94fca34e6565a57903ee808ff05024496c6c7 SHA-256: 6be63a9d85d6b744f3a94840c5adeacf7edf37b84cf7c10bd3bf63384c7e10de
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links pointing to a single suspicious domain, `cefasfese.4pu.com`. This is indicative of a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic, designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, preventing further analysis of its specific intent beyond the link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

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/8732737737730734/Optical-Illusions-Challenge-Your-Visual-Thinking-Gyles-Brandreth-Et-Al-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8733733730731731/Brandreth-s-bedroom-book-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737736736731/More-Joy-of-Lex-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737738731737/Hullabaloo-at-No-13-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737738732735/Total-Nonsense-Z-To-A-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737736739739/The-Book-Of-Mistaikes-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737736736738/871-Famous-Last-Words-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737738732730/A-Joke-A-Day-Book-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737736736734/Great-Theatrical-Disasters-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4733730730733738/John-Gielgud-A-Celebration-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737736736736/The-Book-Of-Solo-Games-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737738732733/-Almost-Impossible-Crossword-Book-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737737735732/Novelty-Knits-35-fun-amp-fabulous-jumpers-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737736736733/John-Gielgud-An-Actor-s-Life-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737738731733/The-Book-Of-Classic-Puzzles-And-Word-Games-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737736739738/The-Lost-Art-of-Having-Fun-286-Games-to-Enjoy-with-Family-and-Friends-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737736736735/The-Last-Word-Put-Downs-Insults-Squelches-Compliments-Rejoinders-Epigrams-Epitaphs-Of-Famous-People-by-Gyles-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737737730735/Memoirs-of-Odd-Adventures-Strange-Deliverances-amp-C-in-the-Captivity-of-John-Gyles-Esq-Commander-of-the-Garrison-on-St-George-s-River-by-John-Gyles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8732737736732735/The-Ordeal-of-John-Gyles-by-Stuart-Trueman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8733732739735738/The-Assassin-of-Verona-William-Shakespeare-Thriller-2-by-Benet-Brandreth.pdfIn PDF document text