Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a8a4fd4b7e34a0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 09:21:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 2398b8bb1f8b8a2473b2d9d52dd07d47 SHA-1: 18c0f8e62a8a2cc8b039b2d2bd35abe74eb8bf30 SHA-256: 1a8a4fd4b7e34a0fdfe93079805b80b322d3d6c0a519a149b95a3e9674784787
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the ClamAV detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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 https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2e7c2a59c---77764235468.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608258caaf62c---92060408143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/19231490086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23112538319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e06ac1e761be47beb20ec7262f5fa219/dalepevanisuxogutabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/74630590415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/74112411336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0jmsal0kt3fbfhm9omaqfkfbj9/xavasis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/bumutotedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/17516660448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c52b072a479---tinesogaxifivududaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/83363095882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/givegukagawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/isb101jqh2av6svj6r0o3f7d31/zazotuzigasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northcoteplaza.com/userfiles/file/49757829233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szwygs.com/upload/dedowodukimiragetude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/85440684039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/3010362667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/514622njv73ukag4m8rr83h5c1/25836844980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/436a5c8e38211ba68515ed0faa6c7360/45735588704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5754fc5dfc52ea2caf3ce214037a40db/2448524694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98390c98ce665a0317e932e54bbe10ec/vumomusudagunepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3949b7a1a2edbf22471152d01e07d93d/pusugijijokeluzekidufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/772bdb087ccb6d5c3baf4a554afc49d2/retovugivaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serka.com/serka/upload/files/76364195692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46255cf329f961208a0e859a271b5201/perizuxavozuzavadiwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=st+thomas+all+inclusive+resortsPDF 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_off0000ebab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAB 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 009a34077152d6f5e7aca36a5c35e155615d8287d43f4b8d4c39e35932be5f20
font_01_sfnt_off00010427.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10427 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 8b400489570665a72d61d53b6e3b56039cbae079dec1cefbbeb2fc71172a515d
font_02_sfnt_off0001306e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1306E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1