Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 356c383425171e0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.1 KB Created: 2020-04-12 11:42:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 48cd72997c4b90c976bb5153a0686d82 SHA-1: 3cdf4d69527ad5feb18a011999a1e177b31bf559 SHA-256: 356c383425171e0c67ecf13b76c5caf88f8ebf32b775e71db813ab4d53e5b2fa
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 structured as SEO-optimized URLs pointing to various domains. The document body suggests a lure for 'the scorch trials full movie online', indicating a social engineering attempt to drive traffic to these malicious links. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is a link farm designed to distribute traffic to potentially malicious sites.

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://gotvapestache.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130552043/130552043.html#the+scorch+trials+full+movie+online
    • http://bee-chem.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551925/nafaburapefu_wedela_pifiwivovisenu_pixuzafi.pdf
    • http://meganrieff.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621601/ledaxetewirokitek.pdf
    • http://justtilesnbathrooms.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130538946/4887400.pdf
    • http://pursuecustomz.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378993/busofokok.pdf
    • http://h4sd.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381946/2312273.pdf
    • http://jobmanagementconsultant.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452743/3889451.pdf
    • http://formingdisciples.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379315/82e60c75.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_off000058e1.bin
e9e35db7895681d31cb03de0693432bb0d4a356e7407b93528524845fa0c2d5e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58E1 8188 bytes