Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8583a4b72e739f8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-06-18 21:01:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8052b7ed55464391c74d48b7a6bfab1f SHA-1: 1df5c8e2a088b4449f9e0187d92273f459ee70d2 SHA-256: 8583a4b72e739f8e94d1a6fffb0f850dcd159c485b50ed0fd4317d5edfc5a421
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links to other PDF files hosted on various domains. This pattern is indicative of a link farm or SEO poisoning attack, designed to drive traffic to these external resources. The document body itself appears to be a lure, referencing a dishwasher manual, which is likely a pretext to disguise the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted from this sample, limiting the analysis of direct payload delivery mechanisms.

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://orangecountycarpetservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637498/131637498.html#dishlex+global+300+dishwasher+manual
    • http://doomedcalliope.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813934/992375.pdf
    • http://ppedugroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289256/tolowutemiruk_kibinexadanej_lemuniso.pdf
    • http://websters.space/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639533/pagug-xijazilavanoroz-dumegitutidim-jurivasulotute.pdf
    • http://yundingyulechengmianfeikaihu.br3h.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603888/vodimu_weniji_kokuna.pdf
    • http://pariscollecteinc.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379743/wuvizudizu_livolur_bomen.pdf
    • http://parkerdancecompany.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739287/d85d856d83b31a9.pdf
    • http://ohio-dogbite.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455734/virexad-fusexo-ximusinu-kilodujur.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_off000072a4.bin
2ac3f31139599f925ca125af89d0bcd36bbc4b3994575142236ff9c20f4da670
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72A4 5644 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000085b1.bin
aa2d537dae8367c3c6e720d6166af36e043b0192b0dbcb44e1b4fb5f0ac117a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85B1 10468 bytes