Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2122bb474083e4d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 21:01:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 33fc3f7a915f356cc7282bdf5897df37 SHA-1: ecd791458f98f2c66ad307c0bdc2c102eb1a38b9 SHA-256: 2122bb474083e4d8f383b26217eb7e7642e120b26c1542cdec11a91c90981b65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or spam distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdcouj6prp65bvibi6eupmff01/gosigizopawatatotujulev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91b2f26300---bogukoxezikofomuroda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c50e491253ca3da4bb6733072661244d/rejukebugoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danburyhighclassof1961.com/clients/b/b4/b42d7d7907ff1a67dd6fd366dd3c6775/File/tejixijowodot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b29o8ba7jula2ui955f8svj2hb/88909091092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a68b92e3472139386d27a53ab3b9dc7/82055789118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burattinojatek.hu/userfiles/file/30224132192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatnhapkhaugiasi.com/luutru/files/dobipijovazikog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl_adresuserfiles/file/61632962445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be734a32698bd84068e0a94d305513ea/dakalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doucetplasticsurgery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/metokimizumokufop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2a46d20a1---42132093639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywymc.com/userfiles/file/sejagadifizogafiriwupuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30f180e63b46bebaf12554ef462e8a82/25437870940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/pexato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hansenlight.com/UploadFile/files/wiras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1bbhsgmlqb85ld2jg3vc7d28p/gafenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba18f897b74---33764629569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c19c11cb1e8---79583655240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/remobiwibirajove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077691736a15---gowenerovukoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=sutton+hoo+and+beowulfPDF 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_off0000ef7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10793 10492 bytes
SHA-256: ad9d82ee691b3c9681fe7dbd33b10a31c44be54171961eba4f5de2a175119184
font_02_sfnt_off00011f75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F75 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 61316b532c7041f61f6769bfae27d806bba6104a00f5b0e9ad00f28d5153e4de