Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da9938fcc03a4501…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-05-07 04:50:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: ab38f732f073d3c94f96afa66a3c00fb SHA-1: 8f4c2c1942e8df5479e165477eb291b75cba41b8 SHA-256: da9938fcc03a45013dce7697fe9262c381a25ff1645498f1ecbbd929e79f634d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for distributing further malware or phishing for credentials. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to 'Camberwell grammar winter uniform' and 'wkhtmltopdf', hinting at a potential lure disguised as official communication.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=camberwell+grammar+winter+uniform PDF link annotation
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4f028f759---dugij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e023c764814f166f7fceaf2dd773235e/16297669531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/dusubebixobobovoxevaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4676516a0c5a851a6503eb8dc17dbb2/73456833095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o73l0sjjrcil82224ov29v48l1/verigibifesonegarowodopas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9a4ce9f1f1c1cdc536525e3c9e3d42f/dujifafamulewiririzivefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75f3f54668b596bd54f20736b1a9f446/xolorosopisuvejuwiwewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19f668cb7103182616ed2bdfadf4d829/80821252498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddfsbff062fem1v8moau3ce3r4/75466907495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609445d14e4d8---286401983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/kesirov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d825a32e3f08128526164692e0aa5e74/bujararejitunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/24310396854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/rujoxobojexomigosagetufit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071496e05e31---xulefexino.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://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000cabf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCABF 5044 bytes
SHA-256: 0c09da125b723d45174f6684ff465b44a75fb190f0a47239ebb03d8cd4aecab3
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE2 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 8e883876031f4fa630a8fd9c7759ba7864722ea7417b6ef3c8db6ca7d818c6aa
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF2C 16160 bytes
SHA-256: b4d62efa195a2b4e000f8e677d07f67e36e8fcfc99319eaa5118aed7638d171a