Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e1606e16c326bd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-04-05 09:16:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 93af04f4ca6da2f2751662c63d42ec2d SHA-1: 7c7042f4b93fc37c46c27c68896849e949de10c2 SHA-256: 8e1606e16c326bd66685b6eed75b5b6b1489a3fe0697ec454981fe11d2caacc2
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1598 Gather Victim Identity Information T1204 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, pointing to various domains. The document body text, though partially corrupted, includes a reference to a URL that is also present in the list of external links. This suggests a link farm or SEO spam attack pattern, designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious or low-quality content hosted on numerous subdomains.

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://terryjohnsonwellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437025/131437025.html#la+canci%C3%B3n+sandunga+en+letra+zapoteca
    • http://jamiehowelleventandphoto.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969858/788759.pdf
    • http://mantissecurity.us/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603896/1a8cea89ab6f2d.pdf
    • http://tuz-tirol.net/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323268/tepod.pdf
    • http://ekitangaala.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621404/4676288.pdf
    • http://rockislandindustrialtools.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313044/52a4274.pdf
    • http://carmelgroove.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289651/gugebizad.pdf
    • http://realmisterketo.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130541271/wamajejuju.pdf
    • http://scotthillam.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738861/3776351.pdf
    • http://hibulli.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604595/boxezududenozi.pdf
    • http://lauramartier.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775917/1193c2e42ea.pdf
    • http://sdvarietyoutlet.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453753/24180a8e.pdf
    • http://sweetjarcreations.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776617/livano-mudam-kuzuzulon-zujelowevazazu.pdf
    • http://ewellcompany.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398449/86a5949c46f3a.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_off00006a32.bin
eec4ab06a3c9bd82900c1eceeb25f5e343fa4fb1b03bbae590b6dbd021390faa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A32 9048 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b01.bin
5ab722767a013402446fb9faea185d6eed51f18fc8590d020f5671b3499c51f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B01 16236 bytes