Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02c3acca2ebd8baa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:54:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: c3a8e38e7d47b6d10849d01fbc8afa0a SHA-1: a863fba0bf90e957535f5620ede7e5aa62bc66b5 SHA-256: 02c3acca2ebd8baaa6cefc9b90e6c17045741fd1d67416ff1b96351bc50992e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, utilizing a link farm hosted on compromised websites to direct users to download files. The presence of multiple URLs pointing to potentially malicious content, combined with heuristics indicating a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious intent to trick users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/vakoxuza.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210502214931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72f8bb8af89c8b2cf402f360dede8f57/nolikenurikufisotipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b333f928122fc030637d67182e3fc253/94986736975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec0d08fe55---82649873955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/19427954899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzysztofmalec.pl/gfx/fck/file/xojadokopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fritz-fahrlaender.ch/download/18122598823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b96b5d58f4920ddaf5062a836240b822/nizakemuripubutazis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adab75aa91d---71547460893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kc6c5qohaene7stqo44s9g6rlc/loguvara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dea5b2d090---sobiraxapoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/98986846419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/31504162520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyline1968.com/clients/74864/File/52592420406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/vogupuromugofakakukiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/tufisedijamepike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a0aca7fc6---86604057084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b22edc1c5---89402102284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/rifupokaxunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/003d5d88c003674df9aae7f52533c441/46787053704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eefbfacb180afa27ba023317fa9092eb/63819904456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bac4f357ac9f1544d9a79cb0ffd3aa2/69927248554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9cb02c733---vexobuwexat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9d28c10b4f0a234026700fa794371a6/nezovibufixeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=free+download+excel+2007+for+pcPDF 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_off0000cb1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB1F 17024 bytes
SHA-256: 3f5884736c838b2311a397a9fb4f037b0d611d509014833d7bc31d6eb0e90e43
font_01_sfnt_off0000f733.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF733 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F4A 10712 bytes
SHA-256: b14e49b7e7754964ae4b0ff9c7d30e611fd7156f0a7f32037e1b562cd6ffb7f1