Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21e59ace0348e24c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-07-06 00:02:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 8e41142cbb4749cb6412e6e821fcf93f SHA-1: 786957919561039ee419fdd4d1960e8b23384e50 SHA-256: 21e59ace0348e24c2bfdaacdd09172ca76e9f5b82a489d8f03ed8d87aa651e56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083242b17e2e---noduwali.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0ca85e156---57305818551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/15963061049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b57c8ea965d4c8f9fd1545aa5d29a318/nejonuwadesirelapaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/goravutukakelofibawaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3e991e22e---mazira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8382c6fc31394dc1457be502e65c06b1/62227068355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juribawikosireres.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/dimigajowixekira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a41db77adc4404ec8a7f3f41b063f674/53800432543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856229f0323---nenupefasodoxiragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/48126017713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/denowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icmasistemas.com/userfiles/files/99313060784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8be204f64---41369414442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/itl1gn1v028n1o36kikk7iq5l1/favitavoxukomepavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1983bb3448df9fa705ed48a66fe7a005/39497242856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qn5l9spkr0g9afi2gquu0ip6ep/96153906662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdaac2c40b2---feguzudogezosabefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085231e7a2f6---buxagez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092264a0743f---29771347615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082145cac8ca---5151267892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/71568480283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.net/images/uploads/files/gosogojixutojugigovetim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=has+been+givenPDF 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_off0000cb65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e377.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE377 17564 bytes
SHA-256: f88271189848687884c957a264edce1cf0a7be7987c0e61ef4912e5676e57e59
font_02_sfnt_off0001102e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1102E 10116 bytes
SHA-256: 87460f29d420da25d0517c4173682006ac0cfcae7f393c72e9b83d6bf9bef1f7