Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 204a0bd3c796f923…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:23:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 7ce34207a465f550edc4a86ee0cc00e1 SHA-1: 901e216ab091ad1effa29b97b086cb0fa955723b SHA-256: 204a0bd3c796f923311686ea664f55863728d08f646fa290e59e6a83998c5eac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to direct users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/59426337140.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e22b039de9---46215463644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhongzg.com/d/files/dasiboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccd1b49b1e76ddc61082501f72d48496/67619182715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080461766eb7---mivolug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb2c7a4146---20838756112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/zakunurenivejudenigake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/gisufunuzojuruvetoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1soq8iqo2qjp3hl5esncheild2/nuwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/wolukalitoxadujofedij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szguilong.com/userfiles/files/wifidujofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae478bc7a02---laxododanojazetuxowuduka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6fc3a56bd---63666275636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2gmh3j724usj0plmg9624da06/zumejugikedarosujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4a5beac1b---73228634290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kvjc3tkoi0q6uhao08heoq1tf3/naweruvik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af54e789bda---39714554515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bo57bv4sqtpq5cdt6tirmqhai8/24948365368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8qdqki8q3s89dmg5884ivkjt1/61768867674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbf68d534071a399cf7169ba1c392f9d/91875904868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092329d82faf---xoselamaralatar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3pk9ietqu22u9gdh2cfi618g6n/53274324545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/26296932132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/noponofufazesojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=interest+inventory+for+middle+school+studentsPDF 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_off0000f3ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3BA 16924 bytes
SHA-256: 9d95d3381ceae7c99928645437a57ffee23e365fb9a27c31d8704862c167b036
font_01_sfnt_off00011ef5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF5 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 1d72ceadc42bb1af75137e5f5e22f185cd257b1f24b3d92a0085e3f48b194a98
font_02_sfnt_off000137bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1