Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0d463e2a45c9eeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.4 KB Created: 2020-05-05 02:47:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 44953ba648d5a76ca522c3ac211e3acd SHA-1: f2843298d8198b9119bdfc49f9dd9ee7587a25eb SHA-256: a0d463e2a45c9eeb2f0245db3c52a5d694d6adb94b2fc057c50a3a6c4037d176
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to domains that appear to be part of a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to 'Fall colour report ontario 2018' and a URL that matches one of the extracted external links. This suggests the document is designed to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to potentially malicious content hosted on these external 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://blueravensetter.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856131/131856131.html#fall+colour+report+ontario+2018
    • http://masondixonequine.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969492/baziniki_runokuraw.pdf
    • http://powerplaytigerselite.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968942/gexovupefuzigak_bexeruk_vedinade_butatolinazezo.pdf
    • http://allwestautoremarketing.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130287919/kuvopu.pdf
    • http://thegone.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739878/3841136.pdf
    • http://brianfknight.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740378/768c7.pdf
    • http://preparedplanet.net/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272081/cb9cb.pdf
    • http://saasfeenest.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323281/5237451.pdf
    • http://mrbojandals.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874520/reruzanedo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • 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_off0000c1b7.bin
c7e92d700c5e124d6858525f99a78c11b50a2ac0920384b13a24b7003f1299f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1B7 11152 bytes