Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 130cf1e6489fdb15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:14:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8cdb671c4ee0f3e8e0f25e0f81a9477a SHA-1: 2cd224995c383843f4cf7f5fe24a954cc8647526 SHA-256: 130cf1e6489fdb15c99a62747db4d38022921906fb82b22c33f75a70f2cbb6ca
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, with specific rules flagging it as a payment redirection lure and a compromised CMS upload link. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to trick users into downloading further content or visiting compromised websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=marriage+registration+form+gujarati+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/8918911628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/jagubelamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5ca3539b7---xazomokotebifulino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccshecea.org/upload/files/31538871538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/77326009791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cac1eb68b3---66949403994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protrialse.eu/files/files/kolofibavezumofofigago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b9d3e7c0f3a62e931816ea8b11c881c/87364065914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161171b133681a---wipixetuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/datumevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f2498b845---fadis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/26145734162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/rimalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/lazujaribizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/2600177421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/sadeferasox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2b0bf7b1e7---13574896409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/muragogasezaramuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a7f55701d6ded44aeffd9e28d4fa6fc/siviludem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b3016b0f95---zabalusuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/8324106065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a274ae28f42---ladututetitosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmgec.com/Uploadfiles/files/puxaxasidesukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/76153442359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/bivisibetedi.pdfIn 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://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_off0000c5b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5B3 16808 bytes
SHA-256: f5148d0b0e62b72e650417a95b4a483aff90261266f24a70c5d499b62a6a3c80
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E6 11020 bytes
SHA-256: e69078108e2b40a2759f8719b084b6032e8cb73a8982d084190fe5b195f7e145