Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 681c4a85e8c0aad3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:58:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 8a39077580506589b3faa8aab0f749a3 SHA-1: dcd7844120f1df3f082c3b0dfb8e099e9e2f442e SHA-256: 681c4a85e8c0aad3732c9ae06253dddd919e9ab0dc3ea172f1b0b95230b8dfc6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, specifically pointing to PDF files hosted within plugin upload directories. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to distribute malicious content, and ClamAV detected it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9786

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://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b23dc63b1---pupanajegigujegiv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d47cff730b8cd9fe7e6cce49ee8dd42/goparixilijiluroxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3765447db---mitodewawejaram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9212ac9243---49127061530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/re7ohm0jecvq5f2p0pbm8p15c6/18930253565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1cf4e0414---tekapuribi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92786518457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/98818268729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/29785965420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210614_1D6247CD43475763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607127d27af6a---kaluvisatutatiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608082ef4755c---kerukiledobefulesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3744e112b3fc033fe595cec94770bd5/78784050589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3013f7382a---53922379572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609670883e1fd---bogosedupozojofesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1968.com/clients/d/dc/dcea35c349c70fb55dca458fc6558ff6/File/rifaxejix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09pkkvm1l1oer4g3ri4s2hl4k7/39610270032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c869cee375---gavirosofebupuwogabakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf38a1438e1bb0916648d8a69871a80e/21506339531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab09c04ea37---36595817355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608341e6bca66---xegefejasunanonuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd5962d60f9378d1f93f227050beb6ba/bifavokexotolopile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/xulubemavawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/kogunixavuwafigevuposebes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/op78p4pu58mq85l6unhep639ji/72165407262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/957773034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=normal+array+to+numpy+arrayPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CE 10212 bytes
SHA-256: ed2f763e8096296f7a0a4b22da57bc25b9011b2efbdd357494d3184ff463ee1e
font_01_sfnt_off000107b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107B6 17384 bytes
SHA-256: b19bd3fa8a824f7bb2d3074f8fea09c9de5f4fe98933757737b29001ad838477
font_02_sfnt_off00012033.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12033 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13845 17768 bytes
SHA-256: 98a03091d8d8a21f08d984bd19bdd0189af16737fbb4593fa1e75f0a73f1a5ac