Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bc394599dc3543b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.8 KB Created: 2020-05-23 15:52:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3b9b7e9c426cbdc957aa8d1280633171 SHA-1: eaefac0d87331cbe34767d14fa6739b51246deb8 SHA-256: 1bc394599dc3543be906940d6177205657b839be12564c5de7a3d64bd4df4083
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a large number of external links to various domains, indicating a link farm or a distribution point for malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior. No scripts were extracted from this sample, limiting the ability to determine the exact payload or further actions. The document body contains metadata and a review title, but no direct instructions or lures.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://theballantyneimpact.net/uploads/1/3/0/2/130291724/130291724.html#whistler+xtr+558+review
    • http://shopgate28.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739131/wibezepugikeriwarik.pdf
    • http://spoiledatfirstdrop.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620840/lemilu.pdf
    • http://caviarcloset.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590436/zepipiju_gugiko_tasivamiso_vulotutedo.pdf
    • http://essenceofyounique.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606482/686317.pdf
    • http://literacyempowermentinitiative.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323755/gonupix_zunivixun_garadezeneban_gimajubatiriwe.pdf
    • http://tabdeelifoundation.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621857/podav-degunud-vatoludifabu.pdf
    • http://roknow.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776795/pegaxexapog-gabadelinowum-lisidufipif.pdf
    • http://marbledsilkartbyc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637186/bokobomefudaxukedo.pdf
    • http://nomadsociety.cz/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435649/raduzamusakorodebimu.pdf
    • http://yorkshiredigitalconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289760/simukogijiminew.pdf
    • http://vilardiplumbing.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603939/minuvux.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000065f4.bin
6f79c0ffd0e1a1776160d0530d4646d0abe0a9f90d66ef94dd2d5d6a88a743bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65F4 11428 bytes