Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d67ae15566f5f71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-07-09 17:24:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: df3160c5e5c52f65ce9f1e7dda0f6dcc SHA-1: 1b39f2e6627f4be2690f4c19ba24825ef5156076 SHA-256: 6d67ae15566f5f71eadadd1ce2277f2b7dee0486c5fc612ad8e15e34b8519e05
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, which in turn host more PDF files. This behaviour is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+mew+in+pokemon+sword+without+pokeball+plus PDF link annotation
    • http://ayurvedicclinic.org/userfiles/file/78111268371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/029126a7eecc35b3bcf655d65368a1df/35329505106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2uikh4cjiijmisg0upd0r79dh6/dolodisarafowitefekakap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fd9bc6c2193dc6b34712a599d55fde4/24325447542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df7084db6f---bidipabibewunomagowutinar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saunadlaciebie.pl/userfiles/file/gutinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c1fbcd4308db0e37cf6c5534660bb91/66920458031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afde84c9200---fapopudik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaketiga.com/contents//files/70983735336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/23385029297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/nudirozajaboforafujegute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93e877b495e5fa118829483e8c4c61b1/39849986935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078fb3dc094a---xolodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc2a9726ed---68367768822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/58120962923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/80903772726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ee7777518---59272900631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campingwithconvenience.com/files/files/18221657671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9edd1968894d71330d44c89dea183db5/goxezibuzevopoginopita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theshippyfamily.com/clients/57051/File/30505562324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1917c0ec4549fc43ed1088d50c956f7/54162479301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d834d216d---vuluravepegom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f36a14e5c5---28225868187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f78b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF78B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010fa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA2 11248 bytes
SHA-256: a5571f610b712a97bf614775e23c0aa5aa7795dc92b3e52746b573491a3d3341
font_02_sfnt_off00012957.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12957 5876 bytes
SHA-256: 643f11bf04f9dff6930f9ffa735b4a2b2da79e4b0dbbb32edbf0ac4b83193779
font_03_sfnt_off00013ecd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ECD 18392 bytes
SHA-256: 4c4eea41bf80d04107cb8385ecd1b7edc8e56e2e81b4a135a435253d5236f7f7