Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df40caa4402c3a1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.1 KB Created: 2020-04-11 06:06:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: db9f217bac86a5d20ca2add3d990826e SHA-1: e3a73bf2e4adb43556d0f13705f41e57ba1d2310 SHA-256: df40caa4402c3a1f8cecacc709dd0fef50979a59b946cd6794e7fec1ac71c875
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on various domains. This pattern is indicative of a link farm or SEO poisoning technique, designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is intended to trick users into clicking links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact nature of the linked content.

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://www.peakathleticsystems.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873947/130873947.html#baahubali+tamil+full+movie+1080p+dow
    • http://frfconsulting.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604815/nutexipuzidenab_vikugadi_zobadabi_wodetuzuroladov.pdf
    • http://appliedchiropracticoftroy.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164387/37ba7c588d9b64.pdf
    • http://youngmonomaniacs.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740124/titezumepuk.pdf
    • http://gotoursandholiday.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873895/9681186.pdf
    • http://woodhavenlane.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453753/dd4e376dc.pdf
    • http://lindadunlap.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070982/9e809.pdf
    • http://mpmultiservizi.it/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604258/b520b9951ef5a9.pdf
    • http://growingdreamspropertysolution.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453170/2512916.pdf
    • http://birminghamburger.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588205/fawujowikagi.pdf
    • http://wssolucoes.org/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289433/sikemotuzeku.pdf
    • http://agcmart.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739830/9ecf3224.pdf
    • http://seanmarbaugh.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130270748/mepurulad.pdf
    • http://cookepainting.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452987/12698fd100fc91.pdf
    • http://bsmithcontracting.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130271081/86703b0.pdf
    • http://agnesscottclassof1965.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969045/zukafan.pdf
    • http://wssolucoes.org/upload
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006527.bin
9e49860a6d436c75d0475053eb28acbdf91e486f0e6ac9a67bfec2feeaed0dfa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6527 8688 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c49.bin
67eb807bed3580c97c74cbd9f41ed602c203feefe3178375c575f11d9d958ba1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C49 8264 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009c74.bin
cdd54ff312d07e748630af530be3e62c902f1ad3ca93ef2489511aa1e9630a20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C74 16524 bytes