Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00b99dd95ef66837…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-07-10 06:04:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9173938f0e765f99ebdfca0159fc691d SHA-1: 55f7537c14c54be50c9b43769378e411dab29247 SHA-256: 00b99dd95ef668371d18928724ce4cf78e06bca2d9eeb1d9b6cdf9c2efb86bb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, such as ketchas.ru and various WordPress upload directories. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF link farms often involves JavaScript to facilitate redirection or exploit vulnerabilities, hence the inclusion of T1059.007.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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=animals+get+the+most+of+the+nitrogen+they+need PDF link annotation
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b190486ac46---50086185956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb74784df5---rivudugipen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16258662111786314576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envisystem.com/upload/userfile/files/9493149529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65883060726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/247f551c3fc05840cf26d11a8a763821/75273122635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zalasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc33e16ec30---64947351526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084029c626ed---58356968261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba6c3b72e0---ludamaxigava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavalentina.ro/app/webroot/file/tozetibetebaror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damoorefamilyreunion.com/clients/7/71/71c8bb141a0941b69292984b9770a174/File/lavulazotovuxowuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardatrans.com/content/Files/kemexapitepaneminosuxufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a31cd1631659f62cabe2dbedab7dcb3f/pesidumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c289173d75---39384869370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa182a11101---75842272373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210602184521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5d6853e61---22530934589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://montpellier-business-plan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/5701458811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160994c109d5ab---jorefakenudefelemumijeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7d0bcbc940edf77654838eaa392d8e8/fezabanakij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluminiosarla.com/userfiles_arla/files/14889131047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d30d0a7f2fb---wefapuwunusiloxuvuzab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/kenofonoradiximuvitezukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609acce27ced5---poxebodepalixa.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_off00010768.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10768 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 48c0c330b5371a737b0d50c96b113bb94d34be7db01afa48d8bac3ad0f51e254
font_01_sfnt_off00012037.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12037 16696 bytes
SHA-256: 0b0b8fc71812c27b9553facbf91d6939211662930a4fe0b6b6d91e965260c0f2
font_02_sfnt_off00014b8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1