Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42559a40729ee344…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.7 KB Created: 2020-04-07 11:28:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 8045795dc3ff456f9a79da8ed882e449 SHA-1: f306bb135babcb5c932da227d72bde98d716fc31 SHA-256: 42559a40729ee3440d1551261da7b9b8179c1cc7722f95a5e25e466bf06625fd
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which are hosted on domains that appear to be part of a link farm. The document body mentions 'Tropical smoothie cafe job requirements', suggesting a lure to entice users to click on these malicious links. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to a network of compromised websites, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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://wheresmaldo.info/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620449/130620449.html#tropical+smoothie+cafe+job+requirements
    • http://expertzonebh.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776433/kulipub_nokifajeperosov.pdf
    • http://chromanose.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130324418/1b63370d4.pdf
    • http://reneegdesigns.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739393/60b67f8ce89add.pdf
    • http://timberwoofpetboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384721/kerutagu.pdf
    • http://gilanilawfirm.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814127/fezitigamaduvipipata.pdf
    • http://jasonswhatley.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969674/7cd4dee46.pdf
    • http://lamaisonpresdulac.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588237/7efe5776c.pdf
    • http://dentalimplantrepair.net/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289641/505ec60987ebbac.pdf
    • http://vicanews.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323156/2985443.pdf
    • http://kathleenwickham.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775921/0d59ea46b2440.pdf
    • http://specialdental.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969048/nizidevebisojevi.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_off00006351.bin
6e2d88fd55226c391df02496efe5eeb3746ee609cc868c36f16cfe230294e6f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6351 7860 bytes