Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12aaddf053ab5042…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 03:46:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 0372751cc6a19a6f6b131f7b69f6c2f9 SHA-1: eef3bb027f90bb885f28d2d52de199e7ad40bd74 SHA-256: 12aaddf053ab5042330b3f5ee22dc75fa3ee03bfb660706e8ee6dd494db6bbda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised CMS installations, specifically using the 'formcraft' plugin for file uploads. This suggests the PDF is designed to lure users to these sites, potentially for phishing or to download further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d01a4d54be2---65377572688.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bddf0603aa5d62f2bd3d569a7315e64e/67127604898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bb88892dfe---28018406473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf610da9ece---55387115297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/zazufuxatiduwonitelavipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4fe26411be---lolokapubuzolukupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35614e5b6e8e42e16bc2c4ff4df1460f/kedojuxupofunesaxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e176dc20e---tuvuniderirogifef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/vepupepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/33355950806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18150aca7e---37366037135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00b830fc4e---26752852646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a474df05318---nonadudovevojikaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pcstaiwan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luwirag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phrabat.net/UserFiles/File/23500379177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/pavezalifigutupifufedenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081381bf04f6---mojewara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumusjitu.com/contents//files/84278015526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0817e6b0dccca9e0f76e8898b1ba8d03/3496827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/morupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26a02346024dfc5a50c04a3c80773b2f/dokomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/1078764706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed90d8c1c0---84748496225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/67533868275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/11649821196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76858b3ac178ac164924771adf9a8fb8/53617468537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kv9becfetjjom2279gt99jge93/senuzedufupipalebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=nfs+most+wanted+free+download+mobilePDF 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_off0000fb1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB1C 18064 bytes
SHA-256: b4341a7f4ec392c876b99252226b47934c5428c0037949fab3f72c19eba473ea
font_01_sfnt_off00012ae1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000142f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142F8 10716 bytes
SHA-256: fe0365d07073141b7245932fbf38ca7337fe23392828a26f639df1c068d1b07c