Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7916242aaa45d4c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:59:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 090310a92389e710cc6a3636e8f1cb8f SHA-1: 3bea0869a3d22c5a2a5c761182cc5e8c389b4e5f SHA-256: 7916242aaa45d4c5ac833f018248501ceeb5072e328daf34b09c02b12335b795
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by both a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories. The presence of numerous unknown URLs associated with these compromised sites suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c661b30ae3---jolotete.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62fdb62fdd---tunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070349e33e98---rolobijosegujewodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bf618574c---61471996468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/zugakofemulusoxegafipola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/24347538011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i7bbru8b1ioq9cao7n68q44ln0/7270213914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/xotududizonuropamatepalox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b294d1c3826---70863075634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf2912e098---nakawesibeguwixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7db547bd2---vurazinedavifezupaporag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0dc25fcd8fa9435c7f17f433bcbc988/suwegetafikup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hane.com/files/29856544543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinmarketsuite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gowinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96ca53817664cea357d284a84b94bc3b/betixeboveram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnagarancija.com/userfiles/file/lelexakegokizodobuguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acba002f950---fasuvuvobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/vapokogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdd82760e5d6dd64f5ddf31e7425439e/24993604557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.roimages/file/61955575465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3c6583822ed2c5a43c7c67a9eab8841/97139169142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc90697c4e5---jujetipaxumuxilurogoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog//file/fuwixofemasanuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=6+feet+and+half+inch+in+cmPDF 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_off0000c7b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7B2 10424 bytes
SHA-256: d6b4a405c1e6752b6265ad857efab6defc9761e35b1c05670ee1cf9162c7ec5f
font_01_sfnt_off0000df0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF0A 16696 bytes
SHA-256: 896704c72010f49393fbc4aab170b011b2df2deb473dc9c0f9ce8fc392af5b76
font_02_sfnt_off00010a7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1