Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c719fd43d9a8acdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-04-05 09:22:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: fce466425098fe2428fc59923f6e6352 SHA-1: f253c7d2231bb7a13f19c9f719f37acda6c210cc SHA-256: c719fd43d9a8acdfd18c307358f56d252766f8504f69dcce9c115aae0482a39e
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many of which point to PDF files with numeric slugs, indicative of a link farm. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to download potentially malicious content. The document body contains text related to 'Pokemon black rom download reddit', which is likely a deceptive lure to encourage downloads.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://shine-from-within.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071299/131071299.html#pokemon+black+rom+download+reddit
    • http://misskinfirstgrade.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588806/7687105.pdf
    • http://shutupimgay.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639364/9223862.pdf
    • http://gaylebunchfinearts.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621932/kuwiki.pdf
    • http://ryanreitzammer.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775252/xigekenenumuvif_mukat_xubab.pdf
    • http://janethaworthnaturopath.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969565/nikugikonuno.pdf
    • http://interwebfun.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739688/4484cd.pdf
    • http://sunnylucia.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313643/8106248.pdf
    • http://shrevewoodpta.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550920/657f8d7173773d.pdf
    • http://robiskincare.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813033/6bce3ea2f9ca6b5.pdf
    • http://ns3.shawnmooreart.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130489418/454486.pdf
    • http://shrevewoodpta.org/uploads/1/3/0/
    • 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_off00008227.bin
141460bf0ba5a1b22e141c4602fc4fb6d603040f8e947bd1cd6bf676c86a77a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8227 7920 bytes