Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00a99a6844a52159…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-06-15 17:18:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: f6e8c5eb6e24184fcb8722238a64bfdc SHA-1: 95bcc11aa1b9f8ca851ef100f8da740bd040c502 SHA-256: 00a99a6844a52159caf43f0ec9633abf9fad8023b80a3862765f4563c3df3f31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites used for hosting PDF files, suggesting a link farm or download lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to trick the user into downloading a secondary malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=someone+like+you+letter+notes PDF link annotation
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f78h5k8okreemibvcl08no3e4v/7291654757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/259730b63c57c55184ac29c472b46e93/73623155354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92b6ae88e---7470202648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f223614b6---kitoropela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pibpkjtrp0a04evl28jlie4hl5/14934939457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delshadian.com/public/userfiles/file/fedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b00d2c9bef9---516814283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/vogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609805637d75b---35335156179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakirkoytemsilcisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855f3150c51---nozesulekosokuzasedoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5dd63bce2---5512956262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/zowasepufijodala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907e0ce84c9---lexuvapusutomerusamori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609490925827d---3741565091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrbofff8kovv4uenqa3d99m7k6/likeseruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E6 4892 bytes
SHA-256: 9f96c53fd8062fd686c6f95dc6eb1c1cf1491ed73da9b46a210866c7ddb5db73
font_01_sfnt_off0001017b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1017B 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 038f9b654285a3083bc4a0804fb7943d9730f6c0ee900e125ca1e01a936142c8