Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ee4fdc5f29fcc01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-04-14 11:17:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 8954669cfbcc9690e4fd907589530cf9 SHA-1: 9db9e516de3e3966221dd2f11274dbeecc154157 SHA-256: 1ee4fdc5f29fcc011b409ba40d15218e6f2af8761cfde7ff9c13bf884ab8e591
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, a common technique for SEO poisoning or phishing campaigns. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to 'Chinese zodiac movie subtitle' and a URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious website. No scripts were extracted from this sample, limiting the ability to determine specific payload delivery mechanisms.

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://patagoniabajoceroexpediciones.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776484/130776484.html#chinese+zodiac+movie+subtitle
    • http://leoeandhyde.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379474/8845727.pdf
    • http://simplyparadise.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408614/lakigivetemaxujevew.pdf
    • http://ncaavideogame.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738550/tefalurikavenos.pdf
    • http://hashtagfomo.mobi/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379181/2b9887b606ea08.pdf
    • http://viasilvapannonia.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539517/tazefol_torimot.pdf
    • http://mydollypop.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636977/7045296.pdf
    • http://sarahabbitt.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639115/segabixazasepidis.pdf
    • http://frizzphysio.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313167/4310795.pdf
    • http://ncaavideogame.com/upl
    • 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_off00006c79.bin
7fe0ed8568419a91923fbaad594c4ca76e6ff6bdc2bd0f857f2ff06b966d1e8c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C79 9572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008fd6.bin
89e1b39690b8e59bcd951df21426d02408cefb25dbec3e7792468449606d80cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FD6 4944 bytes