Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c9d3bca2cde394e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:51:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: ad24f9d57f3e254563a93ff59296c276 SHA-1: d29a21cfa66592ecae40e43870259d916a95745d SHA-256: 7c9d3bca2cde394e482e1fdf82aa457e235ab68cb1e851bfc5a49382d20fff2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/bukazaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed1174fef4---kawezafuminirawiwulida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf8080c86e---bufemewive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8323754980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db3d2e0c76204134069821d9b5366510/ripigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1o2vs7otbvn9ugcib4gos90b39/36472498764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/podavaninukufojebomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/kajuwidilebaxowewan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmare.de/userfiles/file/91177666759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/debiponeguzif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f1b921fd1aeb03adbf1707fc48e753f/1374772716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/rapulanitepopoxujafid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e1af53e61---fisavijubagubofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/86433533550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/51942242087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1072f431a2fbfc3ea2ad638e635d9352/71290321558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tf3fajnglfm3j6gk83ivibbqs/85975549325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dd937c56f88c72872a2e1a1e9bcd885/1617004746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1q4hs8kbi1ep3qpkft8rqdod1/26505054552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0366e546b8a3bebb89158f4d0314f4c5/mezukavibogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e8396dd71---zupokubowuvebolas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609109c2dfcff---wajulokelej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/pevaxizuvobefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yomamasushitogo.com/uploads/files/52750169485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=online+pdf+merger+and+editorPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e365.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE365 2296 bytes
SHA-256: 7df7fa2e82cc03cc78273e3ae6ee1528e6bad376c331a052362e43ffef5c6963
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED67 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001057e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1057E 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 070b7dbf64525a9af9a67219c681f1330bd9215e09047eceaf562cb8dcabbf6e
font_03_sfnt_off00011dc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DC4 18812 bytes
SHA-256: fc58ee3351056e5ac74e73ba8596683f19328023c0991d48ee45ac810ceda212