Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d85aa98da64f86d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2020-03-19 05:01:24 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 8145ba572876f5e15fc95b6205e207bc SHA-1: d87a3403cd220851cebdedde45bc4a4376f1e0c2 SHA-256: d85aa98da64f86d40a598d37257bdad0fa830cc7d9ad6e54b618b8e46fdd633e
82 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical of phishing campaigns. It contains numerous external links, with the primary one pointing to a page that likely hosts further malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of generated links, suggesting an attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute payloads across many domains. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

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.
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 84 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://nashobavalleyextractco.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620950/130620950.html#2006+ford+6.0+diesel+owners+manual
    • http://nicolesnaturals.blog/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775427/1941219.pdf
    • http://cachecoeur.nl/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379155/gejilotevogukor-toboze-wewitozabe.pdf
    • http://squadronheadquarters.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620274/tijeded.pdf
    • http://cam-booth.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604042/8998144.pdf
    • http://newhealtheconomics.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588573/bubetu.pdf
    • http://ravensteadfarms.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738512/d11dc66726084.pdf
    • http://www.guadasauce.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776271/98fa00873bcbe.pdf
    • http://www.lawyerturnedgypsy.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313221/vitegawafisagurajuze.pdf
    • http://alzheimersresearch.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969811/6ae5ba78ff3.pdf
    • http://cherylspencerhartman.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813095/fibejoge.pdf
    • http://www.shopatwestparksc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969184/birixonakebatanam.pdf
    • http://sironaliving.net/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313087/gubidonuxorat-pezifonowut-junowof.pdf
    • http://nhbea.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738777/9704326.pdf
    • http://we-have-hope.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621713/fisuwopogagizu.pdf
    • http://campkinky.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130271201/finezidav-lumebikineki-kibodesuzus.pdf
    • http://74-123-72-208.mgwnet.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130490488/pamanaluwud-negigipeso-satube.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_off00012eb2.bin
6abcc0e4bb1de69634c8f43a810aec4071d6b2fa519bcf94a2a2d78dc838bbd6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EB2 5152 bytes