Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca614faa033b4447…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.9 KB Created: 2019-05-02 05:13:00 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7 First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c295819a011d265815d5a4f32474e7d6 SHA-1: a679b49164a234d71c6e3d70218fd0414f23200d SHA-256: ca614faa033b4447040932aff7670cd1e7ea67cc500709267f33d83e26719523
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. While the document body is unreadable, the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or to distribute further content. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic also flags the document as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9775

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/1737733735736/Blood-Will-Tell-The-Murder-Trials-of-T-Cullen-Davis-by-Gary-Cartwright.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4738738737731732/Sex-Murder-And-A-Double-Latte-A-Sophie-Katz-Murder-Mystery-1-by-Kyra-Davis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6735736739739/Sex-Murder-And-A-Double-Latte-A-Sophie-Katz-Murder-Mystery-1-by-Kyra-Davis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4734738733730735/Murder-Trials-by-Marcus-Tullius-Cicero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1732736733738739/The-Fear-Trials-The-Murder-Complex-0-5-by-Lindsay-Cummings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5732731737738737/Getting-Away-with-Murder-on-the-Texas-Frontier-Notorious-Killings-and-Celebrated-Trials-by-Bill-Neal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6735733737733730/Making-Corrections-Work-Effective-Offender-Rehabilitation-Francis-Cullen-and-Paul-Gendreau-by-Francis-T-Cullen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1735730737739/Ghosts-of-Mississippi-The-Murder-of-Medgar-Evers-the-Trials-of-Byron-De-LA-Beckwith-and-the-Haunting-of-the-New-South-by-Maryanne-Vollers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/7739734731738/Three-Keys-to-Murder-by-Gary-Williams.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8737731739730/Victim-The-Other-Side-of-Murder-by-Gary-Kinder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3731730730737733/Blood-Web-Caitlin-Diggs-1-by-Gary-Starta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730731730738731739/Blood-Will-Be-Born-DI-Sheen-1-by-Gary-Donnelly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5733737736737738/Sherlock-Holmes-Reader-Murder-at-Moulin-Rouge-by-Gary-Reed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4738739732733736/Murder-and-a-Song-Pattie-Lansbury-Mystery-2-by-Nancy-C-Davis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3737736733739735/A-Palette-for-Murder-Lana-Davis-Mystery-1-by-Vanessa-A-Ryan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4737734733736735/HOLLIS-COUNTY-MYSTERIES-MURDER-IN-BELLA-RIDGE-by-Bill-Davis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1733736732738730/Lust-Loathing-and-a-Little-Lip-Gloss-A-Sophie-Katz-Murder-Mystery-4-by-Kyra-Davis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3733735731731739/Famous-Trials-Oscar-Wilde-Famous-Trials-7-by-H-Montgomery-Hyde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1738737731736730/Precious-Angels-A-True-Story-of-Two-Slain-Children-and-a-Mother-Convicted-of-Murder-by-Barbara-Davis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5735731733733735/The-Mermaid-Trials-The-Mermaid-Trials-Series-1-by-Cameron-Drake.pdfIn PDF document text