Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79d8139de39c1211…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-07-27 10:41:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 8221cee5858dee4f0fe2e220f962a967 SHA-1: 32173675fee3cd504d7d99d3e314caa2fa6020d1 SHA-256: 79d8139de39c12118c8f49c2a8b8a6a36b62101f7a8538d94932b6429c876b7f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high ML classifier score further support its malicious nature. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5ba8a4eb9884bcf33592a468b9090f4/28280945889.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79780578264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ximangsongthao.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/dukene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diclenakliyat.com/userfiles/file/vuputoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/8340319019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muahohangnhat.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/85048609325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/74912964754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b3ce13d36---topifivubim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d53348779---zujapafobobos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38805c26bb10acddc48c67083b015ecb/vazenuwewapubitod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754f482ed17---kisexojivikezufov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/2833105992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ui53ram4k8dulpjmjc1l69vh33/dowuraramen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yeosung21.or.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1626121596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/xizedaxetalutum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/folike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7393682502b6fcd894745ac15ca67281/zozowujuvabokuroluwuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bk.knu.ac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zalevabudogubabigox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/visepegobegebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santiagoporter.com/js/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/93910713430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwilldoit.ru/uploads/files/files/10423593681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f5e52637771abcf1d4cfdfd85714cb8/mipumulonekabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/difagepawuzirexefikog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/5047726396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/wodudutazami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=acordes+de+piano+canciones+cristianasPDF 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_off00010579.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10579 17472 bytes
SHA-256: 267bbdd6fd1b5cfc56126926fc401379807de49c0f9eee6a8734efa14c3e5fbb
font_01_sfnt_off000131ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014a06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A06 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 012d74997cec6180311c5ec6fbb2215de3009da60f304da8f4c25c1a1fe1f45d