Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04fa43a4ec1f552f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:02:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: f5054ee81710b90359a262c14f15e9c1 SHA-1: 3413c289292806e7782fc0b631c088274b764f23 SHA-256: 04fa43a4ec1f552fd0d8a2564e6800390f784753537a3301914037d016a99c76
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure victims to external resources, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56e7bcb8421dc0c295b16b64868e2a3b/97917180026.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac87e08a3d5---jokadufuvigofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relocationservicesgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f125aeaa2e---xeron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75c5d6cd9a---34850554946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/xopivefamezazinurad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c7687b082---vugotutifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/daniwunetebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aead0d0a56---72580381416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/95607213967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/nuzapojefafujugesapoxove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4df7a5e03---73753266298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/59557645091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3b4ed797e---79250973837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8e0ac1baff270c500ac4f4e389a4caa/58723285236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://954move.com/clients/4890/File/rerajeralikujonojukut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c79a4b6af716db7a482a8b615c7be6e8/46459788230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7ba9624f14---91575854195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/wosezomopakamegomopiniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/padolubafukeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b61b8ad4cf5---nefalavazewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/41389590753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a049840376e571f07a06757c531fd333/juliju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.la-rocca.pl/app/webroot/files/files/13954972807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zop.bg/webroot/img/content/files/sovemevawikaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgapopovaphoto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eb4fd44a7037f4c06ee0f8fa1e54bc9/misojijax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+office+secrets+quotePDF 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_off000110a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A5 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 6bceed52aca5cc3b344bf67857c32e983a33cc9ce5214ec293d2791be1378990
font_01_sfnt_off0001282a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1282A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001403c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1403C 17240 bytes
SHA-256: be76fca17fc57c5d7b529cbb62cecf07c1d35d15991ae1773d3ba84dd1e9429e