Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18862f262e270fbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:35:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 1af291606fd757908287c42cdf4011e9 SHA-1: 3255bc22f82e219789ce82cf5414a65018e064a3 SHA-256: 18862f262e270fbb7c713f6d73c38a60a0f233be79eab4166a6f4e0bd68c65fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely leveraging spearphishing attachments as the initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b673994f516e6fdca35f3969f22d1256/37802421620.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dafa6d7fcee---zukuvebivizuwakusopavosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908a746bed1---bagidusezifazorelanuzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5d65c9742b---xurusozapuxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallassymphonyleague.com/clients/1/14/14bb4a025281f1a32078cb68571f7cf3/File/27582346244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyrosesschool.com/userfiles/file/mimifamemejudekaletijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/bikitovulugepolajubemogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763e280feb9---16747043309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f647b5c515ed7c8fa5bca85b8761fb7/xudofarobelimumabulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartmedia.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/jezefiguzime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/pomatenudititubusevadosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topcudental.com/img/userfiles/files/93768843116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://severstroysnab.ru/userfiles/file/wukuwisagaxujodevaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tingyi-bnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/90895390364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adba33e3846---zaxaladujeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/28552341145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/repive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/17053013450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hai-bi.com/uploads/files/202108272343128385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc8aeef5f5---wuvasabiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://health-bridge.in/upload/file/19598454760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4502d3e84d8f5ba97a507185046003aa/rufuxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/81380851018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=trading+hand+signals+pdfPDF 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_off0000dda9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDA9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5BB 17760 bytes
SHA-256: 1bf3546e0ddb99a821fe5c7fa96da70b050ff5571aa60a732da4b06fa42133be
font_02_sfnt_off0001235f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1235F 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 8cacc7588105f3cf979fd86aaf447b2ceb9d28067e14a0779a81716c8155354e

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