Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60444b34d569b400…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 12:56:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 714422075a6fb3eade3e8e13dd32afac SHA-1: f75f7dbb0af2ce50abc96d63a363ee28566fc259 SHA-256: 60444b34d569b4008176d862f6515129011083b64d67e6ab776e80288f986450
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs, many of which are identified as link farms pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/guriruwota.pdf
    • http://jdjcnc.com/upfolder/e/files/20210911113613.pdf
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/13694604935.pdf
    • https://rosenstein.lu/userfiles/files/zesatojuriwejitigevaba.pdf
    • http://merklink.nl/site/data/ws/files/13468309559.pdf
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/15057779866.pdf
    • http://mygiftltd.com/userfiles/file/saworitotijuda.pdf
    • https://www.pepinieres-gey.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41758908837.pdf
    • https://interstudy.net/userfiles/file/31883220213.pdf
    • http://xy-interior.com/uploads/files/202109160251057327.pdf
    • http://sictombbi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11495425920.pdf
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c96133af3---tenixi.pdf
    • http://balade-pierry.fr/userfiles/file/54980878005.pdf
    • http://khangvietdn.com/uploads/file/51661779022.pdf
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/26261808199.pdf
    • http://studiodispirito.it/userfiles/file/sadak.pdf
    • http://everbeenmagnet.com/js/upfiles/files/84790306473.pdf
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ghf37n9pfe2to50ru2n261ktp/65223760470.pdf
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/kilaz.pdf
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390ecb9dec6---62489715231.pdf
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16316996472437.pdf
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/vubuzogawifinilu.pdf
    • http://kfoodntea.com/dataroom/file/fedadiw.pdf
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/pudadabidefoxibe.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=gfx+app+for+pubg
    • 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_off0000d789.bin
2b4d335c4c1903ada94d80bb191573d2accf20f07bd794d60451fbb7b481004b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD789 20256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010bfa.bin
bde7dc7f12c90722be75e05f190aa93e8ded9b421146133cd27ab794b8cc1b96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BFA 10276 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012303.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12303 16792 bytes