Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f97ff85b3fb99cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 06:50:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 04f3eae935cac82df4f769f46e92c0f8 SHA-1: a5611dce6fea3c317181de8636330eecfc1a1e69 SHA-256: 0f97ff85b3fb99cd17be8dd4c9697df9366ed83535616398448cd147801f5e66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2rin4nbnjbmf649rl0oqqo115/kefinutakegidoginogi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nhhs78.org/clients/63854/File/20549043907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindspacepsytherapy.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210622232823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a31fad00cd---43699577655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/93846992038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9760227ba202d406d347fd31eadde20f/belenanibari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a12d14662b367f39227b80fc759f980/petajefemufagewuzovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/23723811345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed87e25500c9e0fff87c0ec7fa52a968/81740613355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f15fe6b5fa46bcc773fc696ce6c7d2c/6087631248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpmp8a8t7e7fiabg79676hqkds/80615074591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siangyun.com/upfiles/editor/files/75464137208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42f06b5083---vuduwuponepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0f9e49ffa---bavijigok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlikefulproductions.com/clients/875850/File/toxumunamab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b94ecd8d85---texugavajamaralirezupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7c090d0ab---pamivuvivedaxezuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coytex.net//ckfinder/userfiles/files/63350313062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210602174322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/665c52bc0d9a2daf85acfc79456a4fd9/tubonetubawaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45a31d57c2---75448375976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b664f503e67---96825520816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+a+dpPDF 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_off0000d598.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD598 18064 bytes
SHA-256: edf309c3de04265905d661e2463264cd6c381363cc8a32a105ddf3155c2a23fd
font_01_sfnt_off000104bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104BC 9980 bytes
SHA-256: b30bbd242d1e703c044c03685f8c75cab6f5f6ac7265b545004b4aa47f20b06f
font_02_sfnt_off00011afb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1