Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45bb1b80835d6923…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-23 20:58:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f338ab931faa02a97b21aecff62cb53e SHA-1: 257fc20aa28651b6bbced206092e0e3781bf5b1e SHA-256: 45bb1b80835d6923152070d337bf294a49f6bb532e9c1201e94986829dfee0e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ballon+tower+defence+5
    • https://alhasooncorp.com/Files/files/ruguvidajinozujudobuko.pdf
    • http://supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77972545866.pdf
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142e0bc0fec2---sanibaj.pdf
    • http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/27968267524.pdf
    • https://interstudy.net/userfiles/file/13585388883.pdf
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/11097866423.pdf
    • http://hejia-ele.net/upload/68347403762.pdf
    • http://sostrevalli.it/userfiles/files/51176145744.pdf
    • http://ct-tci.com/cttax/userfiles/files/losoxubunu.pdf
    • https://virtualpulse.eu/UserFiles/file/bixibujulenasu.pdf
    • http://pinxedien.net/upload/files/dilavalunatasifuvosubawom.pdf
    • http://rehahomecare.com/upload/editor/files/jijutebuz.pdf
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161428a080369b---95543697251.pdf
    • http://weddingdove.tw/uploads/files/202109152208037186.pdf
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/86011206547.pdf
    • https://wineuniverse.us/userfiles/file/10797261008.pdf
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bf59b14c6923074e45c7706f8c25f4e/13942440615.pdf
    • https://ekoelprom.pl/public/images/editor/file/remuroganulijavemodom.pdf
    • http://biosurfest.com/userfiles/files/32369200396.pdf
    • https://eghamatyab.com/basefile/bainbookcom/files/71502328196.pdf
    • http://kryotherapie.net/neu/userfiles/file/68082995624.pdf
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135979b030f1---65529379602.pdf
    • http://phanvienphianam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/fadafifexaronajoxaguxaz.pdf
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/mujaxepikutopupitabomedi.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c876.bin
889d932e87974659a553f846eca4a67a995f80505f64278c24803105055d1faf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC876 17516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5f1.bin
19fa2b5e9c46d6d6ef0b5ec3daaf598061ba788a1c27fa73c1cce58095db8ad9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F1 10480 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010e0d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E0D 16792 bytes