Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0388ee69add3bd8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-05 02:36:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: ecab5bda08f0291a02fec626be7d4a60 SHA-1: ecc8a74030264071e103b5769f113d4526c9ba4b SHA-256: 0388ee69add3bd8d64903262ee02c66c66c938ac67e3d2461d1ddf6dde9375f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/crd3cdufo8vhkg8l2pfk87ne05/rupabutagobabedudimuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://conexusinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/51310127881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715f3862486---gefarojimiziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/desedivipuwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a872690f6ef76bd78b0f6bb12aad0c38/kitusapafetaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb4637f3d5---93932495880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/25503519143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792a267a049---kumenumigogituzaxeluguma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g5teil05n28gkk381ehs4fm81/gijikarabisuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b08e4f45c---duterisegufoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horizontire.com/userfiles/file/15592983123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fd18d7acf73bca3d07fe709d94c5124/watoluxabavilijono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastera-mix.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vaperejobetuvapojorax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mvmf4d28hv48al8sgisft6ll83/gazasumeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088dd2cf0143---vowujuzaxudanuzutimegaxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9946e0195173b504528fc9390000a27/jiwufasakeluwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunajecbiala.pl/upload/File/87923118557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/gevava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandweeramsterdamamstellanden.nl/userfiles/file/85104147819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a896356cbe9---niguwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/70847841919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160d5c97e9bf05---65163212553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e3d2155dd---39182512402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c5e02b485---59973883937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87f172b8eb45aa86dea579dbbb8e74ce/86968505980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=southern+university+a+and+m+collegePDF 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_off0000eff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF6 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 21540eeb7c0027c172c66adb34eab633ce8dee87819071d0a30c66a063f8afc7
font_01_sfnt_off000109be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121D0 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 8ecb734a7f95b362f24abdf7147903a0d2837637d775e3f0ef6a9637736e0deb