Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74cfdc174fc9627e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.1 KB Created: 2019-04-30 06:48:43 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7 First seen: 2020-12-28
MD5: dfc90007c01eb7d57023d6fa951378c5 SHA-1: 5c3b8245ba851dbb872649f26cb4c6521081a72f SHA-256: 74cfdc174fc9627e5a541e8c4f185e1cec63478dc1b4d2d0d723c033a725961d
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded external links, identified as a link farm. This technique is often used to direct users to malicious websites or to manipulate search engine rankings. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the suspicious nature of the embedded content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9787

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/2737738733736/Mrs-Morgan-s-Lawn-by-Barney-Saltzberg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1733734735731738/Tea-with-Grandpa-by-Barney-Saltzberg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7737734734737736/Hug-This-Book-by-Barney-Saltzberg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4738730734730734/Beautiful-Oops-by-Barney-Saltzberg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9739738739737734/Cornelius-P-Mud-Are-You-Ready-for-Baby-by-Barney-Saltzberg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7737734734731730/Andrew-Drew-and-Drew-by-Barney-Saltzberg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5732730730731731/One-Side-by-Himself-The-Life-and-Times-of-Lewis-Barney-1808-1894-by-Ronald-O-Barney.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4733734735734734/The-Cutting-Edge-of-Barney-Thomson-Barney-Thomson-2-by-Douglas-Lindsay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4733734735735731/The-Long-Midnight-of-Barney-Thomson-Barney-Thomson-1-by-Douglas-Lindsay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7737734734738735/Matthew-Barney-Cremaster-3-by-Matthew-Barney.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3735739737734738/Get-Off-My-Lawn-by-Perry-Kivolowitz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2735739738734735/Morgan-s-Son-Morgan-s-Mercenaries-Love-and-Danger-2-Morgan-s-Mercenaries-5-by-Lindsay-McKenna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2734734738733730/Revenge-of-the-Lawn-Gnomes-Goosebumps-34-by-R-L-Stine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9737737737736739/Lawn-of-Excluded-Middle-by-Rosmarie-Waldrop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4739734734736732/Suburban-Safari-A-Year-on-the-Lawn-by-Hannah-Holmes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730738737732730739/Planet-of-the-Lawn-Gnomes-Goosebumps-Most-Wanted-1-by-R-L-Stine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8731732739734733/American-Green-The-Obsessive-Quest-for-the-Perfect-Lawn-by-Ted-Steinberg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8731732735730730/Edible-Estates-Attack-on-the-Front-Lawn-by-Fritz-Haeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4738737733738/Revenge-of-the-Lawn-Stories-1962-1970-by-Richard-Brautigan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5730735738731733/Trespassing-on-Einstein-s-Lawn-A-Father-a-Daughter-the-Meaning-of-Nothing-and-the-Beginning-of-Everything-by-Amanda-Gefter.pdfIn PDF document text