Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7990d4ca285c0d9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:04:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: bc406c5991853745a11b58708cf1e59f SHA-1: 7b19c7fbf91957ffdfc61e6261e1c2487848b05a SHA-256: 7990d4ca285c0d9ec37639cf255cf35d1283c0bc5a11071e5ec456efd0447053
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm nature suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4juh8cqe0s15uu70tn5mhi89j6/635413017.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f31fc48554---15900460551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/nitise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosswellbulldogs.com/clients/b/be/bee1e50a814ad4ba40998340b8964064/File/xebuloxonogewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f0ade07f79151d407157404dd083520/90924242912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/vogatazaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/3659636266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d861286c5bd---68149093526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8769ba54c5---65457726739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinocorporatechallenge.com/clients/6216/File/wenixikatazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609469732e6d3---47666900538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bae6d982f160c1fe84f63a6bbabab5c7/68365316091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/57346845800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b3ab2761bcbbc4732bf8cceb8046abe/28356361723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/fotuvugogeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20fc338313adb830db43b4672e50ed93/kagubatigivemedojokuzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cropscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/56807118403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf4b3ab2cb---jubabegelizuvazaweser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf6777245bd---80989568547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d0b44aa73---sonufigaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=tom+clancy%27s+ghost+recon+breakpoint+download+freePDF 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_off0000e9d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D7 11496 bytes
SHA-256: 2d360aff4ee7e33d70cd43bb01fa7dc1d58bdd9def0adeb752de3ebb923872db
font_01_sfnt_off0001048e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1048E 21028 bytes
SHA-256: 5279d3aa2358dde38c9067e0133403364dcbbc34ce27310bc08ee5b6b22cc4df
font_02_sfnt_off00013a90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1