Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1dbaaa1888da15ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.3 KB Created: 2020-03-23 09:48:07 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 677d3ed965b2a8a7cc5af355b855b7fd SHA-1: 2d2cad5a5265de3047281dc9b049f30c3f0d0596 SHA-256: 1dbaaa1888da15ce87efeb953131f0136ba3a8575dab09c9048de2dc147c39d9
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded external links, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on various domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or SEO spam campaign, designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious or low-quality content. The primary heuristic firing, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, directly supports this assessment. The document body itself contains the title 'Consecuencias del incumplimiento de las obligaciones en derecho romano' which appears to be a lure for the link farm.

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://jtradingcards.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288456/130288456.html#consecuencias+del+incumplimiento+de+las+obligaciones+en+derecho+romano
    • http://daceyphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969980/jazegawisakavazutod.pdf
    • http://www.scott-turner.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969735/kufaverozawidad_gewojiwujifi.pdf
    • http://hospicehangout.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272339/2bb73091f7ed0a.pdf
    • http://throughalexaslens.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289504/jusefevakava_mevesofoxeloro_dilunejevasol.pdf
    • http://www.robertcameronmesosurgeon.co/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874360/c0e65584.pdf
    • http://moyocoyani.me/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740054/bomuvopev_dopejusigepuw_wepinipire.pdf
    • http://wages2profit.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590531/96079.pdf
    • http://dominic-mckinney.pleasingfood.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130622025/kuvevoveresakekaveg.pdf
    • http://daisydoll.me/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775498/felerolirebejog-buwafukejudik-juledawokumabe.pdf
    • http://totalmoveis.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621547/900a7.pdf
    • http://tsv-fcblegenden.de/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313144/zexubugebaber.pdf
    • http://houstonsustainabilitylab.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539243/9528496.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_off00006693.bin
9883c1b0fd490ad54caeeb61b475acde8834e0d0831b35ad14e709603f5cbccf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6693 7868 bytes