Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46a26b20b44cd965…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2020-04-17 11:20:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 3440219d0c2c69e35819c1f3a07e10d7 SHA-1: e5218eddb37a752fad1bd4296318c4b8bef343df SHA-256: 46a26b20b44cd965e4046956223e5d0c37f6ed0298ee80ccc118d4047a9d86a8
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a significant number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files with numeric slugs, indicative of a link farm or SEO abuse. The document body also contains urgency language, suggesting a lure to encourage clicks. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of numerous external URLs strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content or to manipulate search engine rankings.

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://standrewarvada.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776738/130776738.html#marketing+information+system+meaning+and+characteristics
    • http://bodymindbasics.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483697/sutogevewegoz.pdf
    • http://suncityprides.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323794/5423669.pdf
    • http://projectgrowca.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775145/vurulapupubujo-sudimogugine-sipuruvo-lakizidexe.pdf
    • http://appliedar.us/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620728/xapiwukanenisut.pdf
    • http://palmbeachequestrianlandscape.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604869/bimerasug.pdf
    • http://grabpflege-esslingen.de/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407625/3621023.pdf
    • http://jessehuangdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476844/zavokozok-sexepij-lerawixivegoli.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014190.bin
be4b8552e1cb22ed6e4622bc0f7b87815ba2896e92da37966d301de941d0f430		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14190 8712 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000162a1.bin
779aa567746046747dac965df7fdfb06ff632674a0a99ce247a327bf89f0fa63		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162A1 16036 bytes

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