Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84d5c0b757c1a290…

MALICIOUS

PDF

30.2 KB Created: 2020-06-12 04:23:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 87c798f3afd4da5f0cca92b673c95a79 SHA-1: b82babbab4738ce5e02203e6b49b07e87490861f SHA-256: 84d5c0b757c1a290e37ee27c7138ebf57bd725fc4193619f968a2d9e00daadba
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the text 'Fantastic vent owners manual' and several URLs, including one pointing to 'thedevischool.org'. The primary attack pattern appears to be SEO poisoning or a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content hosted across numerous 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://thedevischool.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164257/131164257.html#fantastic+vent+owners+manual
    • http://wakeanddaybreak.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620168/lobileguboresijazo.pdf
    • http://torringtoneducatorsassociation.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604952/72a54a0f0c34.pdf
    • http://eastbournewindowcleaning.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621847/wedoge.pdf
    • http://chrisfulmerwrites.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775920/8381dd393a2.pdf
    • http://towersandturretgames.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738975/gokumiwozubifa-tekazub-walijogu.pdf
    • http://kabukilashes.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438389/350a9638.pdf
    • http://sweetvcakes.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539341/3732798.pdf
    • http://neptunelandscapingservice.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551472/tenegavu_rasamezepinop_fusozimikizima_tusofomofeperu.pdf
    • http://thelittlemediacompany.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874569/1880726.pdf
    • http://support.rmahf.org/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289272/savogex.pdf
    • http://satsofedmonton.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969833/5352365.pdf
    • https://suzofosal.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/50313321358.pdf
    • https://tetetufaba.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/31381593730.pdf
    • https://subujitupus.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/13430622767.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_off00004dc5.bin
1dd7e6964e67c52ecebb159d0c778c2bbd28d9d14fee0738ce2dce29dc14e017
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DC5 9328 bytes