Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45e908d25cc95d81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.5 KB Created: 2020-04-18 15:00:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 76a72297d3ddee70974f941fd2b668a3 SHA-1: de117cdb987db4f3bc43153184973306664adb7d SHA-256: 45e908d25cc95d81205deb9f361574fc4b1e15c26c818a7031b287b9069abf1d
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious content. The document body text suggests a lure related to 'stem cell ppt template free', which is likely a deceptive pretext. The primary attack pattern involves a link farm designed to drive traffic to various PDF files hosted on unrelated domains.

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://spradlinconstruction.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739907/130739907.html#stem+cell+ppt+template+free
    • http://giovannamiller.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379612/sufewizevafoxikevi.pdf
    • http://pennjyukc.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588222/8366089.pdf
    • http://jones-worldwide.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272381/mufox-sonunakapukazo-fugem.pdf
    • http://customcakesbykate.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639805/e6648566b39.pdf
    • http://h3motorsportsmachinefabllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604020/2538957.pdf
    • http://caldera32.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398135/rirebegupi-sodoremexilisa-munukigi.pdf
    • http://common-sense-psychology.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551661/gumududataja-laxanu-lezozek.pdf
    • http://themindfullyfitmom.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438323/6959565.pdf
    • http://jmarkfunding.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130546486/berijakogo.pdf
    • http://parentpan.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739714/duzeluxenip.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_off00005455.bin
7fce0de0b317cd708899ae4523ac26a22c1debc5556ab42f00582e0cf25e6193
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5455 7676 bytes