Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30d3c03053e22f77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

27.2 KB Created: 2020-04-14 05:07:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 58542bfde650fe719c91514d6fb639e6 SHA-1: a2d6476e70eea4c1dffcbab6bffe4d0f5fafd714 SHA-256: 30d3c03053e22f777e572692ee798bbfe0c4c54b64a2f5e5083126361a5d2499
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, a technique often used for SEO link farming or to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'projectile motion problems answer key' and references external URLs, suggesting a lure to trick users into visiting these sites. The presence of a PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic firing further supports the interpretation that this document is designed to drive traffic to a network of linked websites.

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.
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