Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11d8f91216abb516…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 13:58:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 4000d2675b573acd14368daf44f7c2f3 SHA-1: c663706384cec58a343fc0cdb38e011567d8e4c4 SHA-256: 11d8f91216abb516a85ebf2464f0ab6e0722742b69ebdbc1a5b7c715b63a4e76
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. These sites likely host further malicious content or phishing pages, aiming to trick users into downloading additional malware or divulging sensitive information. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a37294db1---didekewepobexag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d63061c65---65062530063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869284364cc---62618353498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c115494f04d---lugoxuxedezisofox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d4b7ae3e4fa20f42f85d64e3a7c4f42/21825029484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/gurixodanobuveno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94k95f2eqe17hhbp30sem5hjo3/93014439174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/kiwajedalamodubawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uo1eujlu9a1eurbn75kg65h811/nomuzufasudupev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607798108499d---20896816089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc90c485a47---sigorubomureboxagujiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ffac0d36d---rimobepiziketavepixupopev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966498f244b---luzasizabewab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahae.hu/files/files/lazenomuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qnpsk2inflmo9p7ej6n0f1gv7/golenotibebupuwulujulir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845c21aa04f---99140163987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777a00b0bc8---bixon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948b66cad28---32811680842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/puvoporuwoxumoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebovsem.ru/app/webroot/files/files/rinirabifowefizojapawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m55k29af3crsaod4rfit3br2n5/50524844658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/51573004573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1ad608v64j4g6l43741hbpcip/4256756032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+book+of+totally+irresponsible+science+pdfPDF 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_off0000c39f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC39F 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 58ae4ab6cf2e0f8f89a09f49dedd3fb4854d90154690a3548a06069d85af6eec
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD0F 16984 bytes
SHA-256: 010b44e3db24a32888b53d3eb60c1ffe2219458c42fb8b17ec0eaaa9ffa69edd
font_02_sfnt_off00010913.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10913 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1