Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c60f59825c8bc93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 17:27:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: f0edf79aef2173272f95e95a68053da4 SHA-1: edd23c00420a2f1117fb2a7de51ab2e1352e9f1e SHA-256: 0c60f59825c8bc93527ec785ddde3cb3af0dc8c3087c6c4633ed3bc2274581cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further support the attack pattern of luring users to malicious sites.

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://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1224cf3b710ac8a52b4c24e192c09f3d/95959654075.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45368998302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be0e0e1c4e---98474480390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/024dbc9eca68da9823a69bf0dee7f62d/xinabupof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zahnersatz.pl/userfiles/files/lezufelagajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esthebel.de/userfiles/file/sofuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cbdb47611f58f0e14ce2894a0008377/mitotadato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5843d26db1---72807132084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b02531ieifnpjon6fpcvi76d42/96025308702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biodent.ro/m4fm_files/m4news/ck-uploads-files/mafomisosuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2bccb6a352---mexevipefenafet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/bisitofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietkinggroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/57619075316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/zubamedowononiwekiwede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesirvinewedding.com/clients/f/f9/f947a18657f5d77a8fcd192ffd4ccf25/File/87956207654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/dazuximabufowebajin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/24442794360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff3f4c74d9---mamufuteduvujadubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f360df18b9---50158423648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/joferozageporijozupoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb1376afa21---22730313112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/232901195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecandrychow.pl/Image/files/jotosadigan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c47a12ef416---ralagipiruwebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=jury+duty+employer+excuse+letterPDF 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_off0000fe76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE76 17540 bytes
SHA-256: efb4b5f15e6fda64ef552d59776c495398e2d67cab50e77feeeffe390e12739d
font_01_sfnt_off00012c7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C7B 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 6a52a096589bcd8448face445404b45a158183104fdaa1a567bb309ffd27ff87
font_02_sfnt_off000144e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1