Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 575fcda20026c801…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 17:19:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: d2f7c9fadef8600446e7d2e3333f9eff SHA-1: 4c33dad47ef87315cfc9d8c3c478557df083ba71 SHA-256: 575fcda20026c80137c2e80da465bf34ec4ddc4e93e37fe2290712048a214655
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which are WordPress installations hosting PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/tosusav.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/574e1d50b3b01c41ee33d2f451857aa2/tumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe23fa5f363a37b34f08a0d39315cb47/vubavirosupuboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1j5039qou6he6lg5l7fg4j1v8/73256807215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4c01be2rhf9u9vcj83i6rfu69/gejalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/gobepubodipixafofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbddbd38bd---xadidagofosota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae30d03dd67---wubigeworejewene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1m04v17knlibj3bq5gp3aceejd/79896851838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/89111445525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/23656663106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a02074a6043185f813a6c380423d0b4/wuwezuwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/39052973958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba03d2966318918e99f33a3c6eeacbdd/vijarenasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5c7eb3a056cbaedbfae8b04fad12e35/55924696279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/99432770726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2odub0bj3m01n7oou6c0c0qir/49842629397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45d1c3d359b1489cd5007ef7e15e4065/18279499527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1326dea1c0e28afc2ca49d4e160506c/vanidowuvebapira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8fead9dbc4---15987989979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/27018299967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/kawobizuloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ibis+paint+x+drawings+for+beginnersPDF 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_off0000ecbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECBE 16856 bytes
SHA-256: e84bcd0611e9b4241beb16a942f577b9802fb1725de87b2ae6732d2455158678
font_01_sfnt_off0001183c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1183C 10908 bytes
SHA-256: f4c8e58af026de5b02c93fd32f9595f19f950d3e4b427a32a635b1b6454bdf37
font_02_sfnt_off00013149.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13149 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1