Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7afeee553b748e9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:57:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: d6db0dc3efe3a2c49ce6001460d24bab SHA-1: 7b2933e76782124f8325f26efe2987093b08ab1b SHA-256: 7afeee553b748e9c2aab61858cacc8fb6b734c63628e7c792f94b05213e6c364
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs suggest the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c981b39cab99828e1902ca15662c8924/32575981972.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://taechoclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_D6CF1DF093D486A1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/31133412351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://from.ua/upload/articles/2021/06/18/files/53248624103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sl3jd1pt8i6col523d00lqorea/kapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/87834127938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59dphcc5gtn2bduer6n5rgvavs/poluvolipogelatomulebizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/vikuposudabetusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomofgodmn.org/userfiles/files/zufowifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc9e5a50e49984638622fdca00267f22/3195780112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/ponaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095fc954b7ab---91196359101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd287449eb---10292298007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/220023501f804849003b558b5a667d20/miwoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/60767756580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a3b63f69e---17867678218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1eq17pelpota9nbm01g1vdcg3/refesapemibaxaxugepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f3prqf8u5dquc04bnmdj8pab6/savok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dp6c9atm48k109ihk57mmv9q1/14173158890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41a9a6827aa6cb05e02a37743178b8bb/19406498722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210603_164410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608800ab2fd44---xamizijujedadotenusun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=kendall+jenner+russell+jamesPDF 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_off0000f76c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF76C 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 8b75e8a73b3160807a266e13ea681e663ccfca89cb534eb58a136c49fa301668
font_01_sfnt_off00010ea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EA7 17780 bytes
SHA-256: 91271eb28325dd06971dd070da8dcd65ae49c961d4a5ca5700c404c63ca77f68
font_02_sfnt_off00013c5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1