Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b5f7d2cd348c50f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-07-09 20:37:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 97bd4bf1c5f8a810dcdc5f858ac13d03 SHA-1: 7a28e53a7d91ee8da8e9e7266e98edd9b43dd699 SHA-256: 6b5f7d2cd348c50fd6e4c08bac4f2e39995b9e6af7823fbd47f6675c2774e7bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, many of which host further PDF files. This suggests a campaign to distribute malicious content through a network of compromised sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dc3542726---14315963730.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913d882723f---16326037677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608669923db28---71897534135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9539b9799da07512213025f95a87e342/55919431304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/werakedexima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908cd35d366---48603348535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983f2b291f2---90936393058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceleevideos.org/images/file/rurovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/55668726776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f05fa3979c---34674819429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17604eb15f8c14da087a5ecc5e24b56f/jobazubin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/23477741876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluefield1966.com/clients/26642/File/7986052783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thedestinbeachhouses.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd3f876f301df5bcf1516980a3b6b3d8/remimexowovomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8b8872b289510abda6ef0371a7df8d7/29871534403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/914da83cce169a96f7a212f294188fc8/pinam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/63168540114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f80ad33b7---97430324343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/netajubanunapezidotamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59d774c7513480f87fd49fa07bb6d501/24739119940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a9434bb12bdca9594d9bd22888c2c7a/97892714130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kanalprofi.at/UserFiles/file/xanidenoxego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c5ca68c99---molevovegitibose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pechati-piter.ru/userfiles/file/92155531921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=nssco+results+2019+pdfPDF 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_off0000d811.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD811 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f028.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF028 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 48ba0a5536962665223018a15b8e3dcbccdecdfb93455c485b116f67c7ae7e7c
font_02_sfnt_off00010944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10944 16920 bytes
SHA-256: ef00d558c359b473485e6d5748f0830ea182627f7f4c6952bb305be965ef67bf