Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b890d7975fc2ff3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 09:20:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 30a0844a85725d7732b48f2e01a93eee SHA-1: bc719c252277491987a6b5062f55ef614e91d478 SHA-256: 7b890d7975fc2ff3e9090d8e20791ad8cb0ad8a861b775f1c335223f062c1f08
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, potentially leading users to compromised websites or further malicious documents, and employs lures related to invoices and callback phishing. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://francoisdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27614408960.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b9a5e17e90e---25857419273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be661e7b0d5---jejivobizoxetumikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4aa165dd9e79397e6f1439dcdadc932/67381691161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lu10iraj13arpljj1h6gn8pf0j/66949433569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostessima.pl/userfiles/file/6067899565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6617f05ca09669d1b03d356a44391fcf/nawoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58a8dac54a0d57220de7fee217a0d616/69670418085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ae2475387---76942314728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emufi8ge9vshqresaqib4m8gl6/35570552223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8e697306bb---67813899132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isvpro.com/custom/files/noperoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/20140160475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4de1fb9a18---gitojomatezawaxepusupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609271f05c8a1---78792021114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c6c7849f2---poneperuludogus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/xugujogowodebir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8efc14e0da---97887240546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/68511762978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80ptr0gqtcqdieh89luethvv93/37981535911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ec0f4cc56---bolokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071580544b0d---35352838511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexusinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/zakujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=are+store+receipts+recyclablePDF 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_off000104e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011cf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF6 17164 bytes
SHA-256: d5a0fb407b80dc44e2b9085c8fb3685c9559ecbf7c19b3100607631ef0e1532f
font_02_sfnt_off00014a12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A12 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 5ebe813593ee5fc2e246430deba3eb5d65ab6e9aa2511fb041b72be02d08a3ca