Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81de68b197f2df38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

205.8 KB Created: 2021-07-20 21:17:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bc8ac6660aa34dd1b52538653e88aafb SHA-1: 91e5aee9519252351f59f08f70378d877704cac6 SHA-256: 81de68b197f2df3844267f537e62f241a669829460287d53a225f67cfa6ac544
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK' specifically flags this as a free-download phishing lure. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of these links suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9945

Heuristics 5

  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c4a28ef0b2c085f7800a895b55f5349/jifinexizuwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lt8641b1q0dgimdtg89jtn5vqr/laxitomogovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsite.vn/uploads/files/84542279060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/736b1c2487f0f423243308f3a22c27d6/14341177474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b9d100a13---63432258511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607970cf46277---werisosemomaroketerekad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgpropertylawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/196a3f6bd36eeefb94f4e4735b3bfa8d/vozotomabokiwuboxojetefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maketmaster.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59279422187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d312e7025733beed112d5c3895c58f1/27049986745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/68084151510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ef48cbacd---tekezutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d01eabc70b---xikasofotezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984ce6e50e6---51305123276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ve6anmpk97l27emmo8d8do91ta/fopadekigazevewiletote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/49429805048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5i4r0c2ns79jdjlhnttqs3vp3/mamodimuvuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harissarantis.com/userfiles/files/dezegekuwunezoxupixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/42657740179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9f52a8fa20ffc4b743828e3cda60143/moluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889d9b68dd0---33886923733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=calculate+atomic+packing+factorPDF 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_off0002c35c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2C35C 20176 bytes
SHA-256: a6bf4b4627e9b80e7553e258e5435813f0677c995eb1e4f92aea1be4c1b54584
font_01_sfnt_off0002f820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2F820 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 986a052567bb242fc8c75d245b45e0a80e4bc1199dfe760a0a79f685b83a4058
font_02_sfnt_off00031145.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x31145 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1