Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed000f107f8a96da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 03:46:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5e4fed0c5376c39122cb6580800edc55 SHA-1: 3191de02e00ccb0e6e90d34e807e3afd9832737f SHA-256: ed000f107f8a96da07231d34570b0ad3ca03f591d4fc67ed68d51fc6a986f625
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1534 Credentials from Password Reset

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of credential phishing and callback lures. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm pointing to various compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely to host further phishing content. The presence of MFA/one-time-code harvesting lures suggests an attempt to steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication, while callback lures indicate a potential tech-support scam pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://umiyawoodworks.com/fckdb/userfiles/file/64463255031.pdf
    • https://eldorado777.ro/upload/editor/file/78622074785.pdf
    • http://pathtojanna.com/userfiles/files/tufarapakufufixedurulotul.pdf
    • http://delfosventures.eu/userfiles/files/dutasixubureseremogan.pdf
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210909215812.pdf
    • https://mimpiindah168.com/contents/files/temotuge.pdf
    • http://hometextiles-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61405525683.pdf
    • http://portalinmobiliario24.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/98186070089.pdf
    • https://delaneyllc.cfonewsletter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/titoginubud.pdf
    • http://akwarella.pl/user_uploads/file/femenepofugilokuxatit.pdf
    • http://abwsalisbury.com/uploads/files/3498747821.pdf
    • http://hennel.hu/sources/elemek/file/70606569985.pdf
    • http://www.jasfec.com/imgs/uploads/3851517560.pdf
    • http://uni-soar.com/userfiles/file/kigakubogom.pdf
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148dc289f137---87857233119.pdf
    • http://thcsnguyenvanhuyen.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78718009763.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324930a868a---36091415824.pdf
    • https://searches.onlineconvey.com/userfiles/file/11887831233.pdf
    • http://hylimusic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/kikepivag.pdf
    • http://www.groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tageduzowipozim.pdf
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/mufulox.pdf
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e84b9813b7---7079448493.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=open+a+hotmail+account
    • 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_off0000e07e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE07E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f890.bin
6e17298481ca14afb932c6bb4d0e5ea9a87b6c0b439992e53ebdad665608435c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF890 18592 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012884.bin
48952e1c8540b1e7d513f4f7c67a6c16305614817113c9d002f3144034ab7769
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12884 10496 bytes