Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 076b1e1c311db931…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:57:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: a1648a00251b513a1ec3af87934350cb SHA-1: 6c686eda9761748d4daa27d979122c61d8d43355 SHA-256: 076b1e1c311db93104bdf9a17a3086b30993032743fe511c7806bf494949ffe7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages, serving as a distribution mechanism for malware or scams.

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 http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceecb09f02b6fe96a8c70f037bbb5b87/gefogisokirelol.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c0cdea04825108d14e6a034cf9b2b62/21129319391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb3a1ca735---selubexumivudozenuzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/likemekifawewikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbc6860a0f5f7b89c27de47c046d3f8b/nadapudejuxitugupokemat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607259862c626---kevitinepivujazufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5164ae9d85f4e83b793edcf3027bc6f/37608751498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tebsc.com/clients/84181/File/bevekamaxikov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://washchienluoc.com/upload/file/47648228743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083eb75546d8---92592598181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608639627f9f5---mefuzizemozadok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e211f4c68c---32308257958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9980a6fc4---7248096873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be1c43ps4rte966b55ekbbv062/ximeperanez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/pulemiwizamosukidixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/42270047913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9d039467a0---85482047397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/lonogobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab30a840f25---xulexijatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c80edf9c7---wexetutojamewikit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd9771327bba4a91f8e066430fbbc4c3/xeduxunarerajoxalukononij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/343osqivtg0g9jrscvreg7jgvu/29766513119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perseverance.cyou/updatefiles/file/makedizagedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/wawipifodabozoworoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=traits+of+ponyboy+from+the+outsidersPDF 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_off0000fe65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE65 11032 bytes
SHA-256: da84348962f81e7b32b5e96860f65fe4a96d4b6d4fd1c9bf57680f0aad065b00
font_01_sfnt_off000117a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117A5 17096 bytes
SHA-256: bb0cbb5179f290b6c8cb18a036f8bc59ddc169c28002d6d698f9e08544344ad0
font_02_sfnt_off000143cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1