Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cef3470b01b9605d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.9 KB Created: 2019-05-01 08:10:41 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: 5a6303b2e9db868a2be10271f5e7d04f SHA-1: 1e35d01e15796578c909b9faaaa969f705c386a8 SHA-256: cef3470b01b9605d971e349b01bc6a5d6cc8894ce09d33bda99935a1e9ba0a6d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF documents. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass external link farm, suggesting a potential SEO poisoning or traffic redirection scheme. While the document body is heavily obfuscated, the presence of numerous links to PDFs with titles related to 'The Arabian Nights' on the domain 'cefasfese.4pu.com' strongly suggests a lure to external content, possibly for SEO manipulation or to host malicious payloads. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/7735730734734739/The-Arabian-Nights-Entertainments-Or-The-Book-of-a-Thousand-Nights-and-a-Night-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1731734739731737736/The-Book-of-the-Thousand-Nights-and-a-Night-also-called-The-Arabian-Nights-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4739735734733738/The-Arabian-Nights-Tales-of-1001-Nights-Volume-2-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4739735734734730/The-Arabian-Nights-Tales-of-1001-Nights-Volume-3-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3730732735734732/Arabian-Nights-The-Marvels-and-Wonders-of-The-Thousand-and-One-Nights-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9737736730739737/The-Arabian-Nights-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4736735735734732/The-Arabian-Nights-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9739739732731739/Arabian-Nights-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4730731733730738/The-Arabian-Nights-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9738734732738732/The-Arabian-Nights-Entertainment-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4732734735733732/The-1001-Arabian-Nights-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9730734738737734/Tales-from-The-Arabian-Nights-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5737733731730739/Tales-from-the-Arabian-Nights-Sheherazade-Aladdin-Ali-Baba-and-the-40-Thieves-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2735738737735736/The-Arabian-Nights-Alf-Laylah-Wa-Laylah-by-Anonymous.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1730732735730731/New-Arabian-Nights-by-Robert-Louis-Stevenson.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1736739730738738/Arabian-Nights-and-Days-by-Naguib-Mahfouz.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4735733738739733/Ali-Baba-and-the-Forty-Thieves-by-The-Arabian-Nights.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1731731737731731/One-Thousand-and-One-Arabian-Nights-by-Geraldine-McCaughrean.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3730736736734739/Sharaz-De-Tales-from-the-Arabian-Nights-by-Sergio-Toppi.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2730733731738732/Prince-of-the-Desert-Sheikh-s-Arabian-Nights-4-by-Penny-Jordan.pdf

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