Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 681fe1194b0c1821…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-17 17:22:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 67cf32d7c7165781bb2398beb60b1ef5 SHA-1: d5961416961b4e7a3c7b24a3f0027db99d7efa42 SHA-256: 681fe1194b0c1821d31e105f59b6925ee6d2fdabb756570d742a914ca7b9db9e
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' indicates the document's content is designed to mimic an invoice or payment request, further supporting a social engineering attack. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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 http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/wolafa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/87050315114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1f71529c1---80732255903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auchli-appenzeller.ch/userfiles/files/lalubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/wepotado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seashoresilverlabradors.com/clients/4/48/482fd9669fb3260065120a60ccac5e48/File/faxevipojimisuvapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f31b2ae610---ranugovepusupube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a50ab61c6f34fcac1cceafec6885aaf2/pibajaregaxaxokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730a94d8de2---xifuxopaloxefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/20895848730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1e40baf12ea304b99f58ab014a5cfab/21871437362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f78b055ca416f7a48110f477d44e2423/lukavupuwapozadom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/luec6dvo770mk361qmq7vev0nb/14080780643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedikal-yub.com/uploads/file/77887923124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/149020464149a0c0300db64cd3eb7177/relegiratowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6kua52vi2952662636gdenok3/59472824444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f0d860c72---15526890206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f071192fe0---71854108496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/vakiwewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7dbe7a1f23---74606024134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784590a4381---vupetifapemusofufugapav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60082dcfa50fa6e8f4184a8da25af8b0/gejebenunaxetewatisekuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1968.com/clients/d/dc/dcea35c349c70fb55dca458fc6558ff6/File/votasakadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/jujusijigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=thank+you+for+replying+my+messagePDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE679 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE8B 17276 bytes
SHA-256: 70a9017cbf0d5b236a1f27303ba58d68cb0939d95c8d5e50e6e9eed63adc7304
font_02_sfnt_off00012baf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BAF 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 7c7c886d95087ab40739d2d868afac885673ba010b393547f502a0840477c072