Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0778bec477149a18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 19:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: e65a9b3657f329cd06aed83633b27ed1 SHA-1: 43d4aadc07ec21b0c09f179c749d91cf7919be87 SHA-256: 0778bec477149a18fe749bc35ce9ff09aa92b412be6df3d5d10db1f7378061f1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a raw IP address in one of the URIs further indicates malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support a malicious classification, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://travelport.pl/userfiles//file/35927037127.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/19702032978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travisreunion.com/clients/1/1d/1d9c560ef9ee6310b862f4c9d288d7bd/File/xefasatumerefanavelezemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a232f7dbed5---68511984881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075da5b91424---kozamorikojapupaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf7db138ea---50731937700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3mu0tq6b21le9gvq57rgk4f1dq/nozegovarurelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775e9214a43---fubelu.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://bruningfoundation.com/clients/9/99/99acc79c432c4c389b364f5b25189af3/File/vogog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49ac69ddjp3mpfh6dvhcbu6eik/madimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d6b9ffcb9248ce0a94a41c3c87b7ae8/86456523914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubf2bc3a1b9kqmmmv5bs1tvjkd/lolidavilejotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/201a3458280281d6084bf622cbf62de8/93023220729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/675c78c4881970fbcb017408bfb7c8e1/25448812652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/pumufuwapaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85bd38ef8b---minela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivjh15iq3cpj65dleka50iki19/jarowatobifenegefizoriwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/75099316097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dac702b446---68667661756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/12767232992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=real+estate+live+answering+servicePDF 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_off0000dc6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC6C 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 6da3f465189d8e147b949b79b74cd681e4d20cdcb8194847b034dd22e9ee1398
font_01_sfnt_off00010851.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10851 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12068 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 8161362dff7f53c7aadec4718049177f36dc8f19a2a26d0835e4cc23c04d64c1