Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef544bac18d23bf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.7 KB Created: 2019-05-02 07:12:49 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7 First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f7246b717035f198107ef2dfe584f1ca SHA-1: f38d514fdec541acbbc257a2fe51f475ba638a86 SHA-256: ef544bac18d23bf69d0d095dacf863a2ca3fcbe00a5d52969f83e03875514b46
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. While the ML classifier flagged this as malicious, the specific URLs extracted are currently marked as benign. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to click these links, which could be for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9788

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/1731739730732737738/Nicaragua-by-Alma-Guillermoprieto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2735735731737733/The-Heart-That-Bleeds-Latin-America-Now-by-Alma-Guillermoprieto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8734738733739734/Carnival-in-Rio-Mini-Samba-Samba-Samba-With-CD-by-Terry-George.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6731732730735735/Alma-the-life-and-art-of-Alma-Duncan-1917-2004-Alma-la-vie-et-l-oeuvre-d-Alma-Duncan-1917-2004-by-Tom-McSorley-Anne-Maheux-Jaclyn-Meloche-Catherine-Sinclair-Rosemarie-L-Tovell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8734738736731735/Samba-Para-un-quot-Menino-de-Rua-quot-Samba-for-a-Street-Child-by-Gabriel-J-Manila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8734738735732730/Using-Samba-by-Tim-Potter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8734738736738737/A-Samba-for-Sherlock-by-J-Soares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8734738737730731/Curtindo-Samba-by-ALEXANDRE-PETILLO.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8734738736739733/Samba-the-Coward-by-Andrew-Lang.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8734738737730730/Samba-Administration-by-John-Terpstra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8734738734734732/Mussum-For-vis-Samba-m-e-trapalh-es-by-Juliano-Barreto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8734738734735737/A-Noite-do-Meu-Bem-A-Hist-ria-e-as-Hist-rias-do-Samba-Can-o-by-Ruy-Castro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8734738736730739/Ningu-m-aprende-samba-no-col-gio-by-Christina-Dias.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8734738734735730/Samba-Integrating-UNIX-and-Windows-With-CDROM-by-John-D-Blair.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/8734738733739733/Using-Samba-A-File-and-Print-Server-for-Heterogeneous-Networks-by-Peter-Kelly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2738737731739731/The-Little-Dog-in-the-Big-Plague-by-C-C-Alma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3733738734731731/The-Hunger-by-Alma-Katsu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4739733736736733/The-Islander-in-the-City-by-C-C-Alma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3734738739734/The-Ultraviolet-Sky-by-Alma-Luz-Villanueva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/6731739739736739/Camille-Claudel-by-Alma-H-Bond.pdfIn PDF document text