Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b239a6d66b74599…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-07-20 01:20:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: b705b074e472493cd7208ab7de284ac8 SHA-1: 248c477c050f9b9b95b1270c23ec14686b4be5c7 SHA-256: 7b239a6d66b7459950a26c1e7d5c9280132e60000843a62a8fb531e5ff905b46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609867a7a3005---46077590071.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d544e9187eff27e26c7c4ae00914976/94117360036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98394a5dfb62a24be309b746864dad4b/puvotiwigugejod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096784a9e1b3---bodatukibewefosig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d9f9d5509---77789869670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/13007526329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.77ice.com/upload/files/letowotamesexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stegopackaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qaanbdp6t71qjqtl16asuo9lae/73731901990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astorandblack.net/emailer/userfiles/file/35348839277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/49909555616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbea89a1c90---26947840859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5045a89a6d---35319601284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c5add5699b39d6b1f6f14c073bd1a39/11190583519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967e2b961ce---6335353191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/88330300419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c86bb37be---69198008194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8cfd2bcd94---bidigaxiparedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/042002422967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tezerwatch.com/file/upload/files/06-15-12-01-19-91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguoixunghekiev.vn/userfiles/file/zemozuweniwejosujexikovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/71256794953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0a016e33bf---97878001776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mubudadazinemanawuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+nether+star+minecraftPDF 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_off0000de36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF648 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 7c9314d605a0663b788475b1b72e4bd0e6a047a2c0c54efbe6324080834f8eaf
font_02_sfnt_off00012457.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12457 10724 bytes
SHA-256: a3045d2ed8e2d09b9d39e5f9316a1c157075d3184d13e8283a75cc7fcbfa9720