Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9c14566c80679ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-03-21 13:57:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 21e9244591a4c63ca65d063dbef91b70 SHA-1: dfe38d3499ca913ae6bc14ab0994e0d255c4d9c9 SHA-256: a9c14566c80679abf787813c068b7da745dfbe3325db8b7017d45fc4a8b98485
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on various domains. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates that the document's content likely prompts the user to install a browser extension or update. This suggests a social engineering tactic to trick users into compromising their systems, potentially leading to credential theft or malware installation. The embedded URLs are likely part of this lure or a subsequent stage of the attack.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://sanfranciscopeacetreaty.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476483/130476483.html#panasonic+nn+sf574sqpq+27l+1000w+flatbed+microwave+oven
    • http://nomi-online.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590059/fadewodufenaruzaf.pdf
    • http://enchantedfairyyarnworks.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130540525/b9b13e752cf6e.pdf
    • http://uservite.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379070/tiritikome-gaxona.pdf
    • http://www.mhsvote.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775905/923216.pdf
    • http://hostmaster.iamump.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130489331/a7cbae.pdf
    • http://charleboiscoachingneurotransition.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164251/5f5eb455a0.pdf
    • http://stuccoveneziano.ro/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313208/talalejuz.pdf
    • http://tskdividends.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639073/7658732.pdf
    • http://flnursery.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604317/zarirur.pdf
    • http://allstartechnologies.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739538/2046009.pdf
    • http://www.learnaboutgaa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775833/nipovide_kasavowilir.pdf
    • http://mta-sts.heyhelen.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130291536/6936294.pdf
    • http://jamesdavidson.photography/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071072/getepike.pdf
    • http://the-jim.net/uploads/1/3/0/4/130436172/jezegarepufef.pdf
    • http://castroslandscapingma.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130273748/51058b4342.pdf
    • http://arpi.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738798/fad901e.pdf
    • http://kpcdesign.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775878/pidoriguwutavu.pdf
    • http://prideofliars.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539517/2a6d2da213.pdf
    • http://floortilenearyou.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130291702/dijamozetek_pudifiperofir_zafug_pafofokakova.pdf
    • http://www.castledivitalita.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483844/8987359.pdf
    • http://mountaintrafficcircle.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639448/8b80f4cee71.pdf
    • http://lacebar.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130475925/9604762.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_off00006e36.bin
fa5cf8a509198b25cf6bc8afbe3a8164e129ecfbebfd0bec28bd281e83663f0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E36 8104 bytes