Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d5a022f977b6de0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-04-17 07:31:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 4f678b589c4becaf35a7afcc2e305790 SHA-1: a6dba366bebfdb2e20b2dfb9698ed115de52f9c7 SHA-256: 1d5a022f977b6de03b14791bf617f8928357e54bc9d972156caa2a05bc27f3c6
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a significant number of external links to various domains, indicating a link farm strategy. The primary heuristic firing suggests this is a PDF SEO link farm, designed to direct users to a large collection of other PDF files. The embedded URLs and the document body text, though partially corrupted, point to a deceptive purpose rather than legitimate content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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://bmajorevents.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130622103/130622103.html#importance+of+reporting+research+results
    • http://bfslyc.org.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814246/88b7a51ab.pdf
    • http://premiumdetailingco.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380467/8512105.pdf
    • http://texasstocklawyer.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605028/1208948.pdf
    • http://susmitapaul.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452953/fasazananer.pdf
    • http://fallenasylumart.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603825/takuwadunalexegafedi.pdf
    • http://sportgirl.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379639/jitidupare.pdf
    • http://treeoflifeoutreachministries.us/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603692/365869.pdf
    • http://dana-the-explorer.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483025/d42ed11.pdf
    • http://elegantdomaindesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406800/misisulesipore.pdf
    • http://union-physical-therapy.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543377/2e34b0783e9fe7.pdf
    • http://gcbn.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130491703/xegimavukorowijazu.pdf
    • http://sparrowhawkgames.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621498/5ba80198.pdf
    • http://cruzinwithdabluez.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739831/9787320.pdf
    • http://patriotnationalresponse.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130538987/c471e.pdf
    • http://trottcollect.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379293/4573047.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006c8b.bin
94a838a6eb7533490b1dc43a95f85ce9a281b0b6f8fc90a8e5e9652d2b01cdce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C8B 8228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c22.bin
e2f1373bf3d70a40ff4276a486f0a1d2d32154e4f45ad1243a44c3d3b7d91cea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C22 2652 bytes