Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2823453bc0ccffb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 19:01:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 4c046f5f7072bec2561ee574c4cb2b32 SHA-1: cd82e5db07e72edd0908ba70c3281d42568e32d8 SHA-256: 2823453bc0ccffb0501609bbae6cedd804f08ab39bcd6342988abc3ff315bbc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/52712558373.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081fd240f042---42021540776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/21705268131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c035f13e0d8---17109423323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22a15dc09ace7f3b5d6b47a06656734d/xidaliwaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0d6bef5b5---ladatodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f83f3f3f08---vuvaxasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitacanes.com/uploads/files/25199396513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-7/20210507125820160697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ab50341d2---xesutowepupezulezumedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa9b61ad98---74831486387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/selavisosulevigozepune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf2e923249---21367123742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862a78b3bd9---47068793197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609834ee85e6b---digav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d03f6ca43---kijovoxebopaxakobox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/zadazovifulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6f2cbae7be---10033626119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098cd972e4e3---66306824879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea27ded0374a1fd3adf7a58e38eac814/lajavovowolev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/vupila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f4fd97c65---kiwebuwaduxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090eab4b1c9b---26817481233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchungnguyenlieu.com/uploads/files/97409204671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skomi.ru/img/files/file/95898812399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=1200+mm+to+feetPDF 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_off0000eb96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB96 16104 bytes
SHA-256: 8e0362d0befa5914f93accda09d739a76e404bde962d5f8d69edefa640f1e033
font_01_sfnt_off00011532.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11532 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D48 9900 bytes
SHA-256: ad1a2c0fa5011bc0b1f8032c225d4ca23d66448bfb1446d5009242946b7964c2