Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab79ee1e3b50d5f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.8 KB Created: 2019-05-02 17:49:47 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7 First seen: 2020-12-25
MD5: 52bf7f7e5810f91a9843af1bfe08bfe9 SHA-1: 8f31b0205581f8b4422278ad1beb99d00ce61778 SHA-256: ab79ee1e3b50d5f385034e7b0a7e3941ed56619e5d945135836860ebdad6ba90
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which are dynamically generated and point to external PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic, potentially used to distribute malicious content or improve search engine ranking for malicious sites. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9589

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/1730737736732733737/Arge-County-Geography-Introduction-Raul-Doamnei-Raul-Targului-Bratia-River-Bughea-River-Arge-El-River-Valea-Brusturetului-River-by-Source-Wikipedia.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730737736730737731/Localit-I-in-Jude-UL-Arge-Stroe-Ti-Arge-Tefan-Cel-Mare-Arge-Mor-Re-Ti-Arge-Slobozia-Arge-Mo-Teni-Greci-Arge-Negra-I-Arge-by-Surs-Wikipedia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730737736730737738/Jude-UL-Arge-Companii-Din-Jude-UL-Arge-Comune-in-Jude-UL-Arge-Geografia-Jude-Ului-Arge-Localit-I-in-Jude-UL-Arge-by-Surs-Wikipedia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6730733735734738/Fiction-River-Justice-Fiction-River-An-Original-Anthology-Magazine-Book-27-by-Fiction-River.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6732737737730736/Old-Man-River-The-Mississippi-River-in-North-American-History-by-Paul-Schneider.pdfIn PDF document text
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    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2730736734739/First-There-Is-a-River-Spirit-of-the-River-1-by-Kathy-Steffen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3735737733737732/The-Bank-of-the-River-The-River-1-by-Michael-Richan.pdfIn PDF document text
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    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6730734739730739/Red-River-Vol-4-Red-River-4-by-Chie-Shinohara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4735737738734/Red-River-Vol-1-Red-River-1-by-Chie-Shinohara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6730734739732733/Red-River-Vol-15-Red-River-15-by-Chie-Shinohara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2736735737733735/Whiskey-River-Rescue-Whiskey-River-1-by-Justine-Davis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9739734730734733/Ein-neuer-Tag-in-Virgin-River-Virgin-River-5-by-Robyn-Carr.pdfIn PDF document text
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