Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 830380d42035977e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.3 KB Created: 2019-05-02 07:55:00 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 836f652ff26736d1f619f373c1a33ba8 SHA-1: 73fa6ea057ec81f4d8b7885abac822876af1165b SHA-256: 830380d42035977ec95308928b20bd850529183199d9ff8c2f05c45c47b1e804
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links pointing to external PDFs on the domain 'cefasfese.4pu.com'. This pattern is indicative of a link farm, often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious payloads. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the heuristic firings strongly suggest malicious intent. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF 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/5735735732736737/Paul-Celan-and-Nellie-Sachs-Correspondence-by-Paul-Celan.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738738732735733/Briefwechsel-Mit-Einer-Auswahl-Von-Briefen-Paul-Celans-An-Seinen-Sohn-Eric-by-Paul-Celan.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738738731731737/Todesfuge-by-Paul-Celan.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4739736734730733/Threadsuns-by-Paul-Celan.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738738732735735/Bademlerden-Say-Beni-by-Paul-Celan.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738738730736736/Collected-Prose-by-Paul-Celan.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738738732731733/Erinnerungen-An-Paul-Celan-by-Gerhart-Baumann.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738738731730736/Under-the-Dome-Walks-with-Paul-Celan-by-Jean-Daive.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738738730736733/Breathturn-into-Timestead-The-Collected-Later-Poetry-by-Paul-Celan.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738738732736730/Paul-Celan-Studies-in-His-Early-Poetry-by-Hugo-Bekker.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738738730736735/Sovereignties-in-Question-The-Poetics-of-Paul-Celan-by-Jacques-Derrida.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8730733734734734/Begegnung-Mit-Paul-Celan-Erinnerung-Und-Interpretation-by-Edith-Silbermann.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738738731735733/Gedichte-in-zwei-B-nden-Zweiter-Band-by-Paul-Celan.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1736735733733735/Snow-Part-Schneepart-and-Other-Poems-1968-1969-by-Paul-Celan.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738738731731733/Anselm-Kiefer-Paul-Celan-Myth-Mourning-and-Memory-by-Andrea-Lauterwein.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730734738733736738/Ingeborg-Bachmann-Und-Paul-Celan-Poetische-Korrespondenzen-Vierzehn-Beitrage-by-Bernhard-B-schenstein.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738738732735732/Remnants-of-Song-Trauma-and-the-Experience-of-Modernity-in-Charles-Baudelaire-and-Paul-Celan-by-Ulrich-Baer.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730738738730732730/Czernowitz-Person-Czernowitz-Paul-Celan-Rose-Auslander-Studentenverbindungen-in-Czernowitz-Friedrich-Kettner-Gregor-Von-Rezzori-by-Books-LLC.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738738730737730/Di-soglia-in-soglia-by-Paul-Celan.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1731734739739733736/Sharp-Stop-Heroin-and-Rescue-People-A-Workbook-for-Communities-by-Paul-Komarek.pdf