Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ca6fb862c0a4ee7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-04-03 11:09:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 8666ea5216207d9b1b0a44f59a197d63 SHA-1: 2624f632916e807008c98d6e75f3a7dc9b9f386f SHA-256: 4ca6fb862c0a4ee73c081cba20ac2ca275d45d0d0048238bca03bcf282577bc1
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. These links point to various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains references to the URLs. The primary goal appears to be directing users to these external resources, which could host further malicious content or be part of a larger SEO poisoning scheme.

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://gateway-of-light.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130312924/130312924.html#eisenheim+the+illusionist+steven+millhauser+pdf
    • http://bluthirty2.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380598/momefi-fenekelawarivat-bexed.pdf
    • http://hannahbowtiful.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380707/7000656.pdf
    • http://newpstowing.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969835/vabamaxavufozamekid.pdf
    • http://qifortress.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398356/3704118.pdf
    • http://sustainablythin.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476563/9619952.pdf
    • http://supremacystudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551619/f0317fbd85a8cb.pdf
    • http://caroongmedia.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070765/vunumetasesomu.pdf
    • http://nordlex.fr/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740046/7840672.pdf
    • http://findersfind.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130546290/3243209.pdf
    • http://nyclunarnewyear.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775563/tokimutaxaxar-fikusulunuz.pdf
    • http://sprayfoaminsulationseattle.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070325/5a67fa.pdf
    • http://hffduluth.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550768/revegosokimerix_tajakul.pdf
    • http://yoga4kids.nl/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379049/e737c0f37.pdf
    • http://ddscientific.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874045/wujur_zujofoj_lugezulozo.pdf
    • http://etheralhearastrology.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776605/4494112.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_off00007ed2.bin
96586d3e1763fc075b0638baa221852cd0ba33861e42bbbf6e1e32cf906bffa9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ED2 8260 bytes