Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b15946ea673b635d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.3 KB Created: 2019-11-09 21:32:02 +00:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: cfe87314c43584e61fb8199b42da91e2 SHA-1: 2c2aaacc92fbfa82b44251d79fd6156efd701156 SHA-256: b15946ea673b635d30c45a7f88873adfe342c8182694f6742b807551de90de3a
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 URLs, identified as a link farm. The primary heuristic indicates this is likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. While the URLs themselves are currently flagged as benign, the sheer volume and the heuristic's classification suggest a malicious intent to redirect users. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9798

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/2730732735733736/The-Cavanaugh-Code-Cavanaugh-Justice-16-by-Marie-Ferrarella.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2730732734736739/Cavanaugh-Judgment-Cavanaugh-Justice-18-by-Marie-Ferrarella.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2730732734735733/Cavanaugh-Watch-Cavanaugh-Justice-11-by-Marie-Ferrarella.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2730732736731730/Cavanaugh-Pride-Cavanaugh-Justice-14-by-Marie-Ferrarella.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2730732733733737/Alone-in-the-Dark-Cavanaugh-Justice-8-by-Marie-Ferrarella.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2730732734737738/Internal-Affair-Cavanaugh-Justice-3-by-Marie-Ferrarella.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4733734731732737/Racing-Against-Time-Cavanaugh-Justice-1-by-Marie-Ferrarella.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2730732734736733/Protecting-His-Witness-Cavanaugh-Justice-13-by-Marie-Ferrarella.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2730732735735734/The-Woman-Who-Wasn-t-There-Cavanaugh-Justice-10-by-Marie-Ferrarella.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2730732735733739/The-Strong-Silent-Type-Cavanaugh-Justice-5-by-Marie-Ferrarella.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1737730736732739/CassaStorm-by-Alex-J-Cavanaugh.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1735730735738736/The-Peacemakers-by-Jack-Cavanaugh.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3737739731738737/The-Victors-by-Jack-Cavanaugh.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730730739731738/Glimpses-of-Truth-by-Jack-Cavanaugh.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3732735732732730/Into-Hell-s-Fire-by-Douglas-Cavanaugh.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730735735730731734/Aileen-Lesbian-by-Robin-Cavanaugh.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1739735730731739/Undertow-David-Cavanaugh-1-by-Sydney-Bauer.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5734736734734/Branded-The-Cavanaugh-Brothers-1-by-Laura-Wright.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5737732734734/While-Mortals-Sleep-Songs-in-the-Night-1-by-Jack-Cavanaugh.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2734732737732736/The-Adversaries-American-Family-Portrait-4-by-Jack-Cavanaugh.pdf