Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15faede0df5b628b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-02 03:43:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 11e8df7cf7933151475e99e32d6d09be SHA-1: ecdb1d4d606dade075a512e7bd335e86edfabf98 SHA-256: 15faede0df5b628bde8e18df64e64c1c45dfb865b2424bc42de2464f5ddd16fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/dadifik.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7abf1925bcad246c0a5c50f53e8f48c/8191442074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e3724ee982424da697eaf4f61679faa/negusixopevipuvax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081955cf3d68---vakow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bj6tb0jka0lidri83ed9kb6a79/nenifikotonidapadaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e1a7e792f---71779042914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96964573958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luathoanghuy.com/uploads/files/zafunolag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotrusso.it/userfiles/files/4089448899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c99edbb676---5423822919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f004a63b4e3---50111125442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd145a2042---32320798947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/16956563737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24b2975491---89054699079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0muttnjilnpr9mhu1hhihq5v90/27096459620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429141640484031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb48bdfa30---45427814370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59dae27c0076447d45a8674ceba0eb06/xilupunubefefojenenelij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/10000689288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-esc.net/user_img/files/12920740689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringpoets.com/userfiles/file/83582818393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edr26vf1v0hta2jvbubkihtr17/55932659593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38020dd3f3---natakaduxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/93668155569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f69153edd---tudalopegelukiwutalufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609780e03c2bb---bujoximotunuzuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=problemas+resueltos+de+funciones+lineales+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_off0000ec9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC9E 18700 bytes
SHA-256: 7866ac7b561da57acef91b01f14935c1066363e02a7dfc1f9b40c8a2a823e954
font_01_sfnt_off00011cc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC9 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 23425d9a5033ae98222f35a7e8fb174691afd317fbccf7d232738da6341a5e2f
font_02_sfnt_off0001362a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1362A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1