Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b253df5e2037c7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:40:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 8c489df1f9303d7dfae90caf2c042ed3 SHA-1: ebec1b312e7ff3757149a9bd6c4e56dc51056981 SHA-256: 6b253df5e2037c7f5df6520f5c29f6f2d7129ac1cd3acb2f940560a5917aad72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting further PDF documents. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm to distribute malicious content, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0jnh0v5u9g2ej2jsn3f2psven/59188114156.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://musiclivemarsala.com/userfiles/files/mufadelunabexijed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ae36f3ce8---21890507894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/zepemiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae6f4c2905---69154298930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/49893522324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/32726501127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607629efd4c82---ledexapoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i2qersuljrob0oh9ocb7ngv361/bufelopuzapirofibamibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0f49fc83af93d249c30fbd07476b972/39536981348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d41e66851d---4154185003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5ccd32805---diwumanodavofizesavijom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098aed593596---kivaxamin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h81bbo819ahjgsmrvl9t5fct22/86847928164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/lerujalujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6nq55ndt2u90k60q5e9nu8ha4/kujopekifevewasuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/ligififu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=hyperextension+of+thumb+ip+jointPDF 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_off00010e26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E26 10992 bytes
SHA-256: e23cdae4394c7fcdb0555b80de0587e50b74eff60a002fbcf6c39bd5c0f86763
font_01_sfnt_off0001273a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1273A 17480 bytes
SHA-256: 5eee9c3174cf2899ab0e5b9f1701a755265146823e31db29a184e75333c1a59d
font_02_sfnt_off000154ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1