Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a7336f82a6978d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-03-18 19:43:35 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: beab4ab440bb8dbe08ba7a92a2f2f142 SHA-1: 77e0be9ebe450b5bef3a481a97cadf04190eaf9f SHA-256: 7a7336f82a6978d3ec4cf2e75e77835605ae0a58692edcd76fbf7421267b7423
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 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, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Honeywell alarm panel troubleshooting' and includes URLs that are likely part of a credential harvesting or callback phishing scheme. The presence of MFA/one-time-code lures and callback lures strongly suggests a phishing or social engineering attack. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns
  • 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://65bancker.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740019/130740019.html#honeywell+alarm+panel+troubleshooting
    • http://nikkileeyoga.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605442/jegelejus_wokimekub.pdf
    • http://hostmaster.thecreativeshowcase.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/2/130287939/wakiriselej.pdf
    • http://summitcityexposure.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539090/raxatebiko.pdf
    • http://thaiontheisland.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313088/vovunutexitasi.pdf
    • http://soilnstruments.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604986/4343ac4b8.pdf
    • http://crowdplaymedia.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603785/gugiraku_vatokevezurak_notavimosa_zupetugogurino.pdf
    • http://modernretailcollective.store/uploads/1/3/0/2/130270775/3124712.pdf
    • http://hostmaster.buycassis.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603931/xumebe.pdf
    • http://yogasoutherner.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621451/nekafa.pdf
    • http://appiassociation.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551231/4572561.pdf
    • http://gazlaybrewingco.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739714/4805327.pdf
    • http://miaimeifs.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775205/tovalog_zomefa_fozanakakoso.pdf
    • http://sowerscontractingncllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739011/xesibize.pdf
    • http://cutthecordonyourcable.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604950/rirurepiwopajeb.pdf
    • http://ashleymarini.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621279/3fd86a64f501.pdf
    • http://lilianbeautycenterspa.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289587/1238875.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_off00007c6a.bin
61c2d36996fe967e7bee70ecb93414002b48adf915ae66f3aac7aa979144abc3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C6A 7868 bytes