Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00a418b2f71084dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 03:03:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 94e057ecbd3b7c3cb24ac2273401094c SHA-1: afcd896a70641e2272e8f05cd2718152323edbca SHA-256: 00a418b2f71084dd2af290e0fe0219305057a07de4edc51f08313c5c955ba3ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the detected heuristics suggest it is designed to lure users to external sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=abdominal+rescue+for+relieving+shoulder+dystocia PDF link annotation
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a63136a5790753f55215000412b4c822/sevulisom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/zoxomafomubabopetuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tdfstore.it/file/67470713966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n7k2b0g5evn16pps4f7l8fqa4k/27898333642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likeevent.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/zalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/mivonuzodulozebanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/84052544507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f518d5500c521a14a40c9169b850eba7/xebanuvuletavedupafuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/96066256708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021052809523473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouq18i8t4kggssq6hststgplf1/zebaberidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/xepizukamonipesenin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31273ef9b0---gukubelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mrh0evm5o4ha3n66m1eenmvak5/75723905220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/13652333817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2f8845dd5---59240349153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watdoenwevandaag.nl/upload/74399170814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34548d570c4184fad294fe4f0c842436/togabipugirebovenojosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/wowabuleratuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835773c5c4d---roxuvono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b3d963a3a70bbc8dc2a21994fc48ae5/logarugoduwudojonutapa.pdfIn 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://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_off000114bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114BC 11324 bytes
SHA-256: 731469d7e3f6c9b11bc2f9939a4488dd8a8dcf2a0c5ba13bf3f121e1729f79ea
font_01_sfnt_off00012f02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14714 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 7d9ccf6d53d7c10ec2d991c57ae23fb6b910760ef0e22cf1366790d1065106a3