Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acc256c5f4ed75b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.2 KB Created: 2019-05-24 13:47:42 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: defeb54276cd697f507534b271db8560 SHA-1: 23fee3caf39c5ed41e58534c5cf76aafe946b39b SHA-256: acc256c5f4ed75b73432d9de7c755dc7a5bc07d5b7c600fbcec47ceaa4afd5ca
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. While the specific content of the document body is unreadable, the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9811

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/1731738735735731737/The-Templar-s-Seduction-The-Templar-Knights-3-by-Mary-Reed-McCall.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1731738735735732732/Jack-Templar-And-The-Lord-Of-The-Demons-The-Templar-Chronicles-5-by-Jeff-Gunhus.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4736730739735738/The-Templar-Conspiracy-Templar-4-by-Paul-Christopher.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1731738735733735735/The-Templar-Legion-Templar-5-by-Paul-Christopher.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1731738735734737733/The-Knights-Templar-by-Stephen-Howarth.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3732731734731731/The-Leper-s-Return-Knights-Templar-6-by-Michael-Jecks.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4738739732730730/The-Tolls-of-Death-Knights-Templar-17-by-Michael-Jecks.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1734733731733736/The-Devil-s-Acolyte-Knights-Templar-13-by-Michael-Jecks.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4738739732730737/The-Chapel-of-Bones-Knights-Templar-18-by-Michael-Jecks.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3732731731738732/The-Abbot-s-Gibbet-Knights-Templar-5-by-Michael-Jecks.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3732731731736734/The-Traitor-of-St-Giles-Knights-Templar-9-by-Michael-Jecks.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3739736734738735/The-Malice-of-Unnatural-Death-Knights-Templar-22-by-Michael-Jecks.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4732736737734735/Jesse-James-and-the-Lost-Templar-Treasure-Secret-Diaries-Coded-Maps-and-the-Knights-of-the-Golden-Circle-by-Daniel-J-Duke.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2735734730734/The-Sweetest-Sin-by-Mary-Reed-McCall.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2731738737736738/Blood-of-the-Templar-by-D-H-Nations.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3733735738734739/Templar-Codes-by-Lee-A-Sweetapple.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2735737733733739/Double-Down-Shadow-of-the-Templar-2-by-M-Chandler.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9736733732738/The-Wisdom-Of-Secrets-The-Templar-Covenant-by-Ami-Noone.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4736731735737732/The-Templar-Templars-1-by-Paul-Doherty.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7732733738735735/Static-Shadow-of-the-Templar-0-3-by-M-Chandler.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4738739732730737/The-Chapel-of-Bones-Knights-Te