Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23d5e7333791e9d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-07-28 11:01:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: d69962d6b2beb651d373f42b860dd009 SHA-1: 7a0e87ade37dea27278f32f7677eff9f82287adc SHA-256: 23d5e7333791e9d264b4f84e220d81673ed490a0c66500499b62a7b9d36e2af6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These URLs are structured as a link farm, likely intended to deceive users into clicking them for various lures, such as 'auto clicker for roblox'. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and the use of disposable hosting indicate a phishing or scam campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd47cb42e0---74328784857.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/79553744441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093dcc4a6c48---53317179380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c006453cab1---60422265548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqm93t0e5rlhkahta7tk1muv6c/ridiworubipikilifunubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af2df5e18a---99246362408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c513ca5fe8c---56040313362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607942310b16c---weruxopegugijimini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buchtel1967.com/clients/26382/File/57618585090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonesfamilygathering.com/clients/2/28/28a2af4908f4fae7f70f8b91082c1e08/File/lofabulebuxuvugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/195f762ba9378f375af61f130bcb52fd/98842799986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zumufazodopukoxoxano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f1dc4a9a6---buvimefemegamate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/60377140395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///zawotobunukiziwiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamthong-marchph.com/piceditor/file/20692388183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/novexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/83071650440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qn87jnc0bknq81cqpggv2avjmk/paropoparujujabavawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e5911f524d9706056778e6e86bd575f/tegita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anysoldierfundraiser.com/clients/a/af/af293656121fcb8b60a8c910089dd81c/File/2719777795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e29004bc63---gikawumasutusujexojus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c09342682---gizolegawepewet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watosaphotography.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210728_104459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=auto+clicker+for+roblox+no+download+mobilePDF 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_off00010127.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10127 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 4d20722d23b691c2b6194de6efacd0bc014eeb5fc6e195db0cba35ebfa2d4eb6
font_01_sfnt_off00011aa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AA8 16664 bytes
SHA-256: e0f022c03cf9391e46fd5efefec7e6e7fbcc897e57d969d253d8aed3697bdcf7
font_02_sfnt_off00014617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14617 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1