Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a517153c6e865327…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-04-07 11:23:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 71c88a09ffbaa07175662443947c2dcf SHA-1: fb17e1bae6cca85e040160d3925d1f8e6c4b259a SHA-256: a517153c6e8653275a019b8342dd43eb0532e25fbe4e8dcef0423bd41a76708a
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm of SEO-optimized PDF files, a common tactic for distributing potentially unwanted software or leading users to malicious sites. The document body itself contains a lure related to downloading 'Warcraft frozen throne free download for pc', further supporting the malicious intent. The numerous external links suggest a broad distribution effort.

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://lakesideautomotive.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969853/130969853.html#warcraft+frozen+throne+free+download+for+pc
    • http://simplybrigitte.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604606/b4d568a4849da7.pdf
    • http://romitkumar.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969603/c24730e7c151f.pdf
    • http://peerlesselegance.shop/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621143/sarupafet_rikitix.pdf
    • http://brawtabooks.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483939/jawudiri_pipisofiv_takekutido.pdf
    • http://image1st.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313360/niwifuros_pisaboja.pdf
    • http://lwfstaffing.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130274319/73e8c843.pdf
    • http://melziepups.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776433/walovedovat_zoxezu_lonogisi_patedinada.pdf
    • http://ericlowther.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378795/tupenopagawipon.pdf
    • http://bostonwaterfrontfinancial.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407155/3514796.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_off000070df.bin
79f5a247d6a5414f300f5da0466e8a1d14f4ae8ef9d6be1ead5dda8011855011
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70DF 7448 bytes