Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ab4fab4ff8e69bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.3 KB Created: 2020-04-14 22:02:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 574c08a10c742aac6a8fd222357d2591 SHA-1: a5e23a30267688ee674aad8c9c5abd9934033f07 SHA-256: 3ab4fab4ff8e69bc9c62a546f6d073545ba9e6d2004c45c3d6430e7f55d12c0f
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, a technique commonly used to redirect users to malicious websites. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Dropper.Agent-9148051-0' further supports its malicious nature. The embedded URLs point to various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute or host malicious content.

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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-9148051-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-9148051-0
  • 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://katie-lindsey.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874253/130874253.html#5+behaviors+of+a+transformational+leader
    • http://electriciansbognorregis.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438157/9307780.pdf
    • http://millerpost.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740489/tulit.pdf
    • http://paulrotman.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130287285/7104445.pdf
    • http://bellyswagger.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589146/6b620bf.pdf
    • http://davidalexanderrodriguez.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483187/toxinev_katomuxuliloxax_wekusuw.pdf
    • http://thenodramamamas.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381640/cc07970.pdf
    • http://firstaveevents.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130271114/62bbba76dcb961.pdf
    • http://bradjroberts.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621709/vanugudi.pdf
    • http://stewartyachtcharters.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407704/masusameri.pdf
    • http://bellyswagger.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589146
    • 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_off0000bf32.bin
beb52aff219cc2c55781eb56f94103e04700c36e536137a9870e29d7440cdb70
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF32 8744 bytes