Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 134a7fa42803d20d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

161.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:47:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 66090c802278784c823f2a029cf8b626 SHA-1: c4579347f3f5bf34a0dfbe5c778b74710e676bcd SHA-256: 134a7fa42803d20db3417eb4f1bd43e9c0e7f8c9f0f0b0441c244cdb5992c04d
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of multiple compromised domains and the structure of the PDF suggest it is designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

Heuristics 5

  • 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://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/17121258082.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085673122d64---zuzesapuderakel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a13c88c63e56eef46091babd4bf1b708/39491509145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c544df859---76255490227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735103de291---28954659028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stananddiane.com/clients/6/67/672a2699e369d648dd23e03de9deda78/File/9075175762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97d288aaf7---74337746828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c496ca1247dfc07de6494b6350095a3f/96374068205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premium-h.info/files/files/67432387381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f0e57118a---70424044257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ns0crqq26givbib82fto9dpar/59573949493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c998f59da89---3338109516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polish-house.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/dadafuvinisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a721d620137---29246870884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=weapon+formed+against+me+shall+prosperPDF link annotation
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001f59f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F59F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00020db0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20DB0 19140 bytes
SHA-256: 7b7ce31b6a5dbfce1b51ff1a317032e22203f8793c5a7a3e1c09b398b20263be
font_02_sfnt_off00022df8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22DF8 19684 bytes
SHA-256: d1631dfff0634d3cc66a6b67107e6c29ba17702e7d7c8903d407126eacb98eb3
font_03_sfnt_off00025ebc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25EBC 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 87d73e713e13dda1368fb3c14267991e733204c3e4efda1865a46d13d5134d89