Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b074bdcbc80f20a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.5 KB Created: 2019-07-29 08:10:54 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 2808df2c1e3af6c58a55ac13031dccd1 SHA-1: 5782b6f2d8db9236927e84b05f4b443b6594161f SHA-256: b074bdcbc80f20a31af199b0f91793fd515e350e1927ca0fed9d5a8f5beff868
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to click on these links, which are likely intended to lead to further malicious content or compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9778

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/1734739733731738/Naguib-Mahfouz-Three-Novels-of-Ancient-Egypt-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4730738731736739/Three-Novels-of-Ancient-Egypt-Khufu-s-Wisdom-Rhadopis-of-Nubia-Thebes-at-War-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1738737734739737/Voices-from-the-Other-World-Ancient-Egyptian-Tales-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2738730737732736/Thebes-at-War-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2733736739731735/Miramar-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9731734733730732/The-Cairo-of-Naguib-Mahfouz-by-Britta-Le-Va.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3734737732735736/The-Journey-of-Ibn-Fattouma-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7738732731737/Midaq-Alley-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3732737733738737/Khufu-s-Wisdom-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1735731735731733/Teba-n-r-zboi-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1738737734735730/Sugar-Street-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5730732736738733/Children-of-Gebelawi-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8736731734734/The-Thief-and-the-Dogs-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1736739730738738/Arabian-Nights-and-Days-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1734739739734736/Akhenaten-Dweller-in-Truth-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1738733730736733/Midaq-Alley-A-New-Translation-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2733739733736739/Discovery-at-Rosetta-The-Ancient-Stone-that-Unblocked-the-Mysteries-of-Ancient-Egypt-by-Jonathan-Downs.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5730732732738735/The-Cat-in-Ancient-Egypt-by-Jaromir-Malek.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1731733738736731736/The-Search-for-God-in-Ancient-Egypt-by-Jan-Assmann.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4733737730732732/History-of-Ancient-Egypt-by-George-Rawlinson.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1738737734735730/Sugar-Street-by-Naguib-Mahfouz