Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21a0797429d4fafd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-29 16:56:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 36945878515a35ddbf5927e4283415b9 SHA-1: 0b22b6024c9fc15f5b917bd03535da644e9cf8e5 SHA-256: 21a0797429d4fafdfc0e829e55c97be3c4b44ca57458cd9eb6cf85f69079025a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/71008584508.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/bigenunugoviguladuxebani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/temonejudomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d338ea294274659515dbe9fcc76a0bd/tudite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otelm4b.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29074570394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3488bt78pa9inlur41cdgpe9n/59544927956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c2e20aef9---1709996408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guerrazzi.info/userfiles/files/muvepir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/129f8b3410f8d21f9e251d680931c444/27238368507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/tarijuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/pagedexatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/99567752209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14b01d941ffd65ee4be0db9d375c4a42/16717479606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/84355680559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/sevifadov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/23023544387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ab05d6c89---73001363186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/zesir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/56686840405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3fc4773b4d841110f69403e998e63ec/74861175696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9a68cb422---28537888574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210624_210500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doyen.cc/images/upload/File/nalonadofuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=best+powder+for+short+barrel+6.5+creedmoorPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/977f788198091612379fef6091db69df/35113548248.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF571 11336 bytes
SHA-256: 2cc56f770969cf16d185667ac904251525270e2c9ebca9aa4953faa29afd5c36
font_01_sfnt_off00011013.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11013 17992 bytes
SHA-256: a40ec7484f3e7ea6038352c17b1ec57758d7cbe4d96af475354164d1148456bd
font_02_sfnt_off00013f3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1