Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac272565054d41e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.6 KB Created: 2020-06-01 02:25:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 783d16a2847e0edc01f5cef0f6c89a76 SHA-1: b1b65a26b20b739407a3b236502bde84c2b53a53 SHA-256: ac272565054d41e538194ce6a324c4db5d62233470cd03e8d151f64dd34e93ae
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which are hosted on WordPress and appear to be part of a link farm for SEO manipulation. One prominent link points to 'gottogetgear.com' and is disguised with a video game soundtrack title. This suggests a tactic to drive traffic to potentially malicious or ad-filled websites. No scripts were extracted, limiting the ability to determine further malicious intent beyond link distribution.

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://gottogetgear.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380208/131380208.html#keiichi+okabe+nier%253Aautomata+original+soundtrack
    • https://nipavefa.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/65791878135.pdf
    • https://xoxabolagiw.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/5842285277.pdf
    • https://reveposox.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/selivadofoxibibemudam.pdf
    • https://wujujozimuse.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/tijej.pdf
    • https://dameniv.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/49295786145.pdf
    • https://depitexexu.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/laletinezibitufa.pdf
    • https://gigepopigep.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/50922008247.pdf
    • https://ranulidoko.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/18247069786.pdf
    • https://vuwaxiveluge.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/40555433887.pdf
    • https://sexedituf.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/sojugexogajojigigi.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_off00005872.bin
8db786fafb1960302784120334b43bd2cda2ad5ad830eefe6f9b6adb8a86ea7f		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5872 10144 bytes

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