Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20bca7548adac939…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 10:41:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 2e144ed9b02e8a494fcab17751c314f2 SHA-1: 25db361f7752e7fcd831a7f177b87852313ec309 SHA-256: 20bca7548adac939cecbb144caa1fe8ce552c32ec56125481abfb309e20a8c1e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and points to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9786

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=multiple+choice+solver PDF link annotation
    • http://progetec.org/userfiles/files/nupofazuremos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2korlc24ef17r3rpvqvao906vh/fezix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datong-travel.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/20210626074729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7090809247---13932598848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulgankhangai.mn/userfiles/files/7226657484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16226852775254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e73fd3cd5---95578600277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/49011895022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/rekegotokifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/xexetiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asvpp.fr/pdf/43282888886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607880ffea9e7---55145850820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/baseparitim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbf32862e2a71c65928301daac343d77/sebupuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ngs358ti71v9gmfscqsf31fudh/puxavajurinozuseliwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/viwadubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5cfd7e3594---28996037434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa45b00664---sebelekozarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5dbc75ecd---tovomomovadezajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/xomasos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/sofodireboxasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/files/56636124774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/441dd05adfd23123f9a84893787a60b2/wegabas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c-effeimmobiliare.it/file/pakaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c889695dc18---9932206602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8260e18ccc---37474691684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f10f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF10F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010920.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10920 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae
font_02_sfnt_off00011f27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F27 18208 bytes
SHA-256: 9163692020a4bfb63e930d74c0a0610afdc8421efe57b3de9e2e7463800f8f80
font_03_sfnt_off00014fb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FB6 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 10ef3a73e8f56f62978672d885cd29f8930b72c006d807e54e8c0f0d3cf8d854