Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9faa84dcfa8b0d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.6 KB Created: 2020-06-03 00:26:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3b7e660af5cabbb836a9a9126d81c8ef SHA-1: 462e573563e0cf2a2c1c06371180afb02ae5baf1 SHA-256: c9faa84dcfa8b0d7ad687b3b906d18b8b069e427c7f598777f9e1ab540d125ee
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which are hosted on domains that appear to be part of a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to a 'Chevrolet epica service manual' and the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The primary heuristic firing indicates a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM', suggesting the document's purpose is to drive traffic to a network of related sites, likely for SEO manipulation or to host 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://attributioninsightengine.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070576/131070576.html#chevrolet+epica+service+manual
    • http://beginwelldoula.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539125/xupagupito_rawiguxo_konoka.pdf
    • http://marinalcoleman.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969776/jatifetojutil.pdf
    • http://sunshinestateadventures.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476976/fovulesoleku.pdf
    • http://themortgagebuz.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814042/fosive.pdf
    • http://autodiscover.yourworryfreehome.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639257/4972591.pdf
    • http://alexhomecontractingservice.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603783/wokebovemenevam.pdf
    • http://attributioninsightengine.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070576/terms.html
    • http://attributioninsightengine.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070576/dmca.html
    • http://attributioninsightengine.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070576/policy.html
    • https://vumarebef.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/83028964332.pdf
    • https://xibelilunaf.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/koradajavilasudoga.pdf
    • https://gonagawiw.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/watapapuvarezazu.pdf
    • https://rewudiref.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/33821906303.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_off00006170.bin
295852da17fd08593c7dc587d6da8d169114f6a50d6990d6359e532f20773cab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6170 12048 bytes