Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 165d06ebe3502636…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-12 16:17:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: ede04abb8e740c92ede01c731c2af3ff SHA-1: 31b20904a5eb654885611f73e47e31e3648569a2 SHA-256: 165d06ebe3502636c923b8cb4929b0611c46f3bce8f383b747c336ed14b3ab13
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and presents a fake CAPTCHA or download button to lure users. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised CMS upload directories suggests a phishing or malware distribution workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Fake CAPTCHA / human verification prompt high SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA
    Document displays a fake CAPTCHA or human-verification prompt — used to trick users into running commands or pressing keyboard shortcuts
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jafedepupurirojukira.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gosselindesign.com/images/from_fckeditor/fichiers/87851003392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotokeramika.bg/userfiles/file/61477729209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/26291161821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthocarecentroortopedico.it/userfiles/files/54816685970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veewood.com/file_media/file_image/file/jobezale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/3897241096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abouelhoulgroup.com/userfiles/files/nefilid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97c6d3776d5777527c6dd63f0c274db9/pakamozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgxfollow.morefriendship.com/upload/files/62238245405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearspace-design.com/CKEdit/upload/files/jadiguwuwijixew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613028f95b8d9---kotojozere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocato-callegaro.it/public/file/28992541721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jljemc.com/upload/files/vufusuzoxubitawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xijeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basisangka.com/contents/files/gabarixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastcity.hu/ufiles/file/595741995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/58003198409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazionche.com/files/bikakobepokijaxitolifugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/wudifawofinajefuzilera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.singchai.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zerofuvotuvotumuzanuzubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394fef90bd3---2639718682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=gkart+ecommerce+cmsPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e576.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE576 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD88 20672 bytes
SHA-256: 5770e80651d215d788ec714a0ef1453e70fc120d244ec63e87416fca1658f1d8
font_02_sfnt_off00013471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13471 10280 bytes
SHA-256: e7117db1658db92028e38b835f6919ebfef57ae80fa7354b17a4d40b3daed864