Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 158ef0c30f739e7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-06-07 09:07:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a48a203cf5377dd7da7f69572b9f0d0f SHA-1: 4b87a2224358047a0d8815fa1e96a1788ba4f3e1 SHA-256: 158ef0c30f739e7d7fee1db9f8de1a5010b8b6327eaea947cf444bf697baf441
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 high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a search query related to 'closed captioning on spectrum', likely intended to trick users into clicking malicious links. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URLs points to a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+turn+on+closed+captioning+on+spectrum PDF link annotation
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a200746b3---52938444480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/13442307883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/31764140906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1622567943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zigzagontwerp.nl/sites/default/files/file/86156541119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af5f61f18400b561e320dadce57c704c/feniputilelewekotibigotox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a01bc819dda---latizomamaxidonejezapeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607340a190cff---megupugogavejirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc1962e99d8cda74dbd90f5e71f5afd0/60090487189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bdabb10d6789aebd17f123db758ee76/88110644410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804b8539f35---85348728029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6fac4c8dd5---nenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0a4a45b72---48032774607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/42247554049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba9be72de5---75445050102.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A4 5548 bytes
SHA-256: f25c766e595770c33cd1f00fc6566de8d65b462db4eaa3d4507207a33fce96e4
font_01_sfnt_off00010386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10386 10804 bytes
SHA-256: bb97852118dcdc9928c251698ba1a0b39e5a686a16b8116283ff29c9059a4c1b