Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f56d534ee89ab06e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB Created: 2019-05-02 05:57:39 +01:00 Authoring application: mPDF 5.7
MD5: f2fc583ce3044b31cb9b428fe3ba3b16 SHA-1: c8a157214c45c4b1706d1f0b8942085bfdc42a83 SHA-256: f56d534ee89ab06e579ec4db85c21f0fc95d2fda093a45c71309b8127545dafd
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to erotic romance novels hosted on the domain 'cefasfese.4pu.com'. This is indicative of a link farm or SEO spam technique, likely intended to drive traffic or potentially host malicious content disguised as legitimate documents. While the URLs themselves are currently classified as benign, the sheer volume and the nature of the heuristic firing (PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM) suggest a malicious intent to manipulate search results or lure users to a potentially compromised domain. No scripts were extracted, and the document body primarily consists of these links.

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/3731738738736738/Ralph-s-Gift-2-Erotic-Romance-by-Sandra-Ross.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1738738738730734/In-Each-Other-s-Embrace-Erotic-Paranormal-Romance-by-Sandra-Ross.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1738738737738733/The-Mystic-Mirror-Erotic-Fairy-Tale-Romance-by-Sandra-Ross.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3731738738736736/Playing-the-Not-Dating-Game-Young-Love-Erotic-Romance-by-Sandra-Ross.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1738738736733737/Untouched-a-Murder-Mystery-and-Erotic-Love-Story-by-Sandra-Ross.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1738738732730739/At-the-Edge-of-Her-Memory-by-Sandra-Ross.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1738738737735733/The-Darkness-Kiss-by-Sandra-Ross.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4733737733732732/The-Yielding-Wild-Cats-4-by-Sandra-Ross.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3738733736738737/Gift-Wrapped-Dad-by-Sandra-Steffen.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/3737737730735731/Soul-Mates-Cry-Witching-Call-3-by-Sandra-Ross.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/9739738731737/The-Day-Hope-Was-Born-God-s-Gift-of-Love-by-Sandra-Lott.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1737731733730738/Best-Erotic-Romance-by-Kristina-Wright.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4733731737732733/Ralph-124C-41-A-Romance-of-the-Year-2660-by-Hugo-Gernsback.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1731731733736731733/HARDER-An-Erotic-Romance-by-Jorja-Tabu.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/2739730732730734/Take-a-Chance-Erotic-Romance-Boxed-Set-by-Caridad-Pi-eiro.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1734734736732735/Unstoppable-Fighter-Erotic-Romance-2-by-Scott-Hildreth.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/5737735731733/Undefeated-Fighter-Erotic-Romance-1-by-Scott-Hildreth.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/1734735731734736/Unleashed-Fighter-Erotic-Romance-3-by-Scott-Hildreth.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4737734734737739/Stay-With-Me-A-Pleasure-Grove-Erotic-Romance-by-Isabel-Winsor.pdf
    • http://cefasfese.4pu.com/4731733733735731/The-Wife-s-Surprise-A-Threesome-Erotic-Romance-Short-by-Ana-Vela.pdf