Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 554f93a246f5231a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 11:20:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: afa19e0601455edc2ef600d352ab8586 SHA-1: 0e3ccdacbc15dc752bd326a067329ce1fc07e244 SHA-256: 554f93a246f5231a7a231a47941cff8998444586b20f6bd7a611b0ad7b2b64ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm the link farm nature of the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vd950c37tnt79kff8mat0cgin4/87384365354.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/366794509f9b837796bb6133d544a42d/soforeliruzuwurijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f19440c15a2c68946090df6535172e00/71140435806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/071ec6b17ca28ea3ea8433541a4c00ae/72986968580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxe-pools.fr/i/File/segulugewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/74951031919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lukili.ch/UserFiles/files/zetepawiferirojoril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09f36f4aebfdd1295493751a10c26bc7/lafoxufobamotowidupusomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/649b1f71efe897bb570b666931a3d837/32670547954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qi1o6gm11l56r5i89s6g8abs2i/88818150722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/70270925232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15901cf35f92631e9b3a2852fc6b3be1/kuxeburofomesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75426c8dcc---58150711757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/boxabalunelusulobuxumedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072903572922---gelasupotebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/241837333690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/dozado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1b8733c14a---zakanigivugojutofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/limirosarano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/zufuboxowiwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f67e6738dfc6686baffc9338b1b0303b/rigosevudukefenizoxowaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c01767878d---ropemezemoludumovokifogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=multiplication+and+division+word+problems+ks2PDF 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_off0000d797.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD797 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 44282dd5ecf997a6ddc95ac51368ac51cb3bcde41f44b8e6ee0eea7efd02fa2e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A0D 17508 bytes
SHA-256: 13ef085a7aa428c42e931842f212e6f8980f93b9356b044abc802caf5bc0591e