Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fb682032aa9b18c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.3 KB Created: 2021-06-09 21:03:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: af35bc58a89859edd1e030aa30e054d5 SHA-1: 9eaf4fbbb8bea8877416fe828b5de11e768227e2 SHA-256: 7fb682032aa9b18c46f5829619edcde4b7447a99d3ce87e86a0df67a64e2531d
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sub+harry+potter+and+the+deathly+hallows+part+1 PDF link annotation
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/mijewutetilasazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuferapiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c63b4d98fea600fe33c894f6be363c67/27325005499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f41c686311---rifabaxajidox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00c3ebfae9---baponukijewagezepaloxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/4638112380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/291614393356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/resolivepanivosenodeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4752917a22---78412010585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c379665340c7154b2d6c034a1c605003/23367664495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/21011008855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c12c52c9d2ec9d130222f542ab9d3b2d/94733902977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1cf945723---59641266404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/59529214620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imgfil.comIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012c7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C7F 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 9e32375fbefcfb920b70403f349df76cf392ddf4a8c604bc426f12397bdc97db
font_01_sfnt_off0001511b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1511B 5536 bytes
SHA-256: 20099bba1ee431f29db09b1b328580c6af1d25270a2dc449ca844af4487f65c4
font_02_sfnt_off000163f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x163F7 1660 bytes
SHA-256: 52d8a34f2811d5b0158c76b1875cb129842b57f0cd8f58bb14d3a710b400a2be
font_03_sfnt_off00016c4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C4B 14816 bytes
SHA-256: df142738ab5aeaf5321ba5c507162ca369d53233e95a0206b6fe03f3f7bfcb99
font_04_sfnt_off00019b84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19B84 19728 bytes
SHA-256: 76a8bd6b230c382db7f9264ba5c971e4095d4a976c440fe2e22d8138001f92a4