Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0088993230d3e843…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 16:04:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 3dae97f69800ee804fb91001255e61b2 SHA-1: 0ac3a08a64cec65f5a22424b187a9e7c5420fdc4 SHA-256: 0088993230d3e8439fa720522bf10931347c45b2e4746b819d1f23108c95db22
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' indicates the document likely attempts to trick the user into calling a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.
  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vq4hmahabfdo9q0mhkflpau8v5/duwelibinetavunojowaduz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa95ec469b3c33681388b9585689dfe6/75682587575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26522ac817d5e01f2966bfcbc897842d/74957639043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984afeb2c57---56643024846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af03a66db52ab2b4d3cfbfcffb6d3c4c/juguwadelemupudajof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womensmentalhealthmd.com/clients/9/9a/9a9ccad1be43d50cbc9928f06550b956/File/28086366219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5vs8tm54piiqdgn2qsjhgd9gq1/55931973711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/59463808789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c4599ba0f---47731043947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/jewixusikogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3kejndqgde913mql9cdpo2t261/59078023304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/fasameg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fc0309cecf935d40b0af1efb95b61db/74747555049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33aede0841f5fd9ebdaaaecdc1627f3f/raribelaziranadoxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4f67f47fcd152b0a87f70a30043fbd9/noforuzozedewanatawiraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5187a7b186---gowubajanep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/pebuwuzesig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangle.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/padebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghdkpa1cp02hu58k8k11vkq8at/39288165478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feniks9.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56326517846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v617v5p28g90rc33m5rnurthf2/30453034805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d9431b196---jugitajezirafitivebezufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aje7410o2p4fd8n0ue3c4rof0q/52491966420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/305867376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=the+dog+essay+10+linesPDF 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_off0000f0f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F3 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 49298108ae0430591fe09befaf89221b0fde730df38589d70aea871d0373469b
font_01_sfnt_off000108dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120EE 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 0e3a419213716cc0620d9297d43d350eddd3725ef64e3c26f21d949295fb9a04