Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dfc721af1478c28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:57:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 4e05554b1e5fd600e636916e2606e98f SHA-1: b3a5a1904b7d7a1591652af0ee07508c32c13910 SHA-256: 2dfc721af1478c284fd10bac2c1d2b900ec2a167e8a8276ff717639a13588c30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters in some URLs further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9ad41d3e5---33540934136.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bce7f1359d---welagozalesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4df5110f0769ac31024a055a1bb579a/26185663502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/fabolasofufomujoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fulzugaskozpont.hu/files/gunusevuwelubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/62041416093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/gewelat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d8b45e1cb---fesedofemolekonenel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53d9bdebd442804ab6a8c7bfeeac1b9a/sigodenebukafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6720aae8780bdb542c2ad3a45e2c5b1d/vufisagomub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d571c1d998---48226004104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/xobaturiwuxexizinived.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c88744bf3c8---lafinilutazilitefafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6805130549531192f73154f42d63ec7a/51155396460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/86151022010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hsrq81j1s48tqfm85uc00d27sj/xilijokixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/887ad8ec4e4b52673b6ba10c336f769c/99177858255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9c64bce72---zadamidobutirufomowosubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607633974692f---96061566763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e3dac22e5---bevefebotopot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/nobifokiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/92653476291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7vtik6sonc5jifr9drp66ens3/tuborevunazetaraneperuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2e336c0ac---zasilofowosonun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o52otrk1lgdkdn08sqmhpfupt6/67604203449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=smiles+for+kidsPDF 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_off0000ef4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001075f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1075F 17252 bytes
SHA-256: e04df6a9cf5c3daea2d7ee9feea87e80d5c79ba5ce178a8d44ee11e6b6303c87
font_02_sfnt_off00013472.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13472 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 58a6f04a89b0b00cc362916ff5f38f639e77a6e67cffc10acc12f55630f0b647