Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db92014170c241ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.9 KB Created: 2020-05-21 00:22:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5b61551cc7af66d243f524b1a8e71b56 SHA-1: a4a9c8a532779cf37b334ba0c8fcd4380dad4d17 SHA-256: db92014170c241baa109ff62f8a0ad2a9a23cb87f72f7d2d2be521ad57a93fe1
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to SEO-optimized PDF hosting sites with numeric or keyword-based slugs. This pattern suggests a link farm or redirection scheme designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Harry Potter' and PDF metadata, likely serving as a lure. No scripts were extracted, limiting the ability to determine the exact payload or further actions.

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://airforce-aviation.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551073/130551073.html#harry+potter+and+the+chamber+of+secrets+pdf
    • http://chakrasavvy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739105/zetujikawelux.pdf
    • http://livelicious.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814459/fupidunuja_daposiso_jitizuxaruw.pdf
    • http://wizshipping.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814933/1417178.pdf
    • http://micarli.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539599/xekalanelinafuk-sumolu.pdf
    • http://reclaimthespace.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438211/7812445.pdf
    • http://salestaxforfba.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130622116/768216.pdf
    • http://lightningridgerealestate.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636755/8258533.pdf
    • http://cliftonmcfate.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607239/lalovebejalive.pdf
    • http://roottoriseconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621182/ponuv-bidabalosasopu.pdf
    • http://45degreecontent.info/uploads/1/3/0/2/130271002/8657d.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_off000051e0.bin
9849d0ccd34bb2ebb6aa5b7816dbfe1a8810d1af067570b1491ca5f32502f812		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51E0 17552 bytes

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