Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa464633c2e09951…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-05-24 19:46:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 64788db38bb43293de25ab5bbfe3b992 SHA-1: f42b78f9c0b54fa17b3768949288348d3b2e66cd SHA-256: aa464633c2e099516dd79b62e67d5c809bfd6e37dc462a332532fb58050d3acf
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains URLs that appear to be part of a link farm strategy. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to a large number of external PDF files hosted on various domains, potentially for SEO manipulation or to serve as a distribution point for further malicious content.

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://travmarket.voyagerwebsites.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476410/130476410.html#naruto+online+combo+guide
    • http://amgrecords.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550764/basise.pdf
    • http://greentulipcafe.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539072/6747986.pdf
    • http://theporedoctor.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604104/lumewuran.pdf
    • http://laurenmagrisso.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969826/5fa35db1e54.pdf
    • http://rockstarconsulting.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408183/konuxewepurirotut.pdf
    • http://ignitemycause.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604129/2711969.pdf
    • http://decrisis.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739729/0a9b67.pdf
    • http://lindaloguereadings.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313741/lavowidek.pdf
    • http://makeupbysarahaskari.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437331/7546298.pdf
    • http://researchtracked.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621362/da6b8342561.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_off00006535.bin
eb3ea2d82d03521d601d6ab25f8584367426303f0d13bea66228a1791499d69c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6535 10684 bytes