Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 312026457a9a1a5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-05-18 23:09:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ab7a6f1fe4b3001b017e24d8ef642071 SHA-1: b2c72c4e90cf02ad59b8e26b48de373c6feedc04 SHA-256: 312026457a9a1a5cc0e4840dbd8745824ed9dacd867a6390685852df5da6d52b
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, a technique commonly used to create link farms for SEO manipulation or to host malicious payloads. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass of external PDF links, with 'afternequals1.com' being a dominant host. The document body also contains urgency language, suggesting a lure to entice users to click on these links. No scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of direct payload execution.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://songhurstexperiment.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871553/131871553.html#invitation+letter+template+for+workshop
    • http://afternequals1.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406146/danoxanix.pdf
    • http://vanessalh.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606343/daxoz.pdf
    • http://akshayshrimanker.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438761/lokuwosulowutu-ketepumaboropox-bivus-gemesobumajuzal.pdf
    • http://photobarn.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739577/wewolegajawu.pdf
    • http://idealairsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437779/pozul-zipojupogonezep-mivez.pdf
    • http://rossconstuctiongc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380253/858709.pdf
    • http://mictkinofest.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969921/sizesilit.pdf
    • http://nietduurverhuur.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739150/jokujewagumap-wirapuwikube-kawowef.pdf
    • http://kimshairitis.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476462/dipivarujutoba.pdf
    • http://libbyproctor.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163996/9554216.pdf
    • http://bnbsports.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130544043/6923658.pdf
    • http://nynjoutdoors.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621473/535537.pdf
    • http://monstertargets.shop/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452860/1495575.pdf
    • http://russellduren.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969633/muripitol.pdf
    • http://mybespokefurniture.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289458/5605628.pdf
    • http://texassoryumma.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969424/nafugaten.pdf
    • http://zishansovercomers.pink/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775441/3f4c259b.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_off00006590.bin
bf5d86249c4fa280af2e9924dd078cbec6e4f43dccb492dd97105839a93f29ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6590 10272 bytes