Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca74e47a451a54a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.5 KB Created: 2020-04-06 06:53:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 5516c4f508f03b5d40a13fdde20ccb5a SHA-1: 7ad83bdd1a9d66d5f5c7682504f7b5f1e836e7c8 SHA-256: ca74e47a451a54a1d952317af2e9a4c1f2f2e5a4c78c8f82dc8fb37b25f217fd
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. These links point to various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO abuse tactic. The embedded document body text and the extracted URLs indicate a pattern of directing users to a network of PDF files, likely to generate traffic or serve as a distribution point for further malicious activity. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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://beyondthedunescottage.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775953/130775953.html#priscilla+edwards+head+start+new+orleans
    • http://userexperienceroast.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379402/7c26471bb.pdf
    • http://heirloomhandmade.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621853/3890.pdf
    • http://sjanothainsuranceagency.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590710/tojiwanav_zilakesadedu_weridufe.pdf
    • http://infra-demos.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163550/petiwi.pdf
    • http://tedxyouthcvf.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639675/muvubi-sozuraxulesiv-womizexonof-zagenazetete.pdf
    • http://quotettc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776103/fasamodo.pdf
    • http://ceramicnano.net/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288861/kutugu-solokowef.pdf
    • http://newlineinc.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130540193/nemaj_mibosura_zamuxulukul.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_off00006452.bin
6cbea6107a5552424130252dda0eccb03c44af27663aa728b1125536825e93a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6452 8612 bytes