Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f6b0c36e9400895…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.2 KB Created: 2020-04-29 07:01:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 62248f971b2fa01edc9b34c114abcf63 SHA-1: 67b5f85fe8bf584624f430c632587e2c369d95a1 SHA-256: 1f6b0c36e94008952459045118ff56000219f6cc5b8ee3f82c742e4742a533f1
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, many of which are SEO-optimized PDF lures. The document body text mentions 'India visa application form for tourist', suggesting a social engineering pretext to drive traffic to these malicious links. The primary heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The presence of multiple unknown URLs further supports this. 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://timeframingconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488773/130488773.html#india+visa+application+form+for+tourist
    • http://chicksingerbible.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130270793/94a506.pdf
    • http://capitalheistpromotions.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130436204/fakojejoso.pdf
    • http://ironelectronics.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483279/8551848.pdf
    • http://maplewoodfarmvt.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637034/6a19dd5fec.pdf
    • http://2brothersonline.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969997/lozefuvumamex_nevowapok.pdf
    • http://drsimonelevinson.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131855992/fukanosedev.pdf
    • http://raising-greens.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453676/348b14bfd0af8.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_off00005515.bin
609a4459c38211bbec5a470e40e01926bdb84ebc4da00b8715419c518795b256
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5515 7032 bytes