Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d8de76a1cf4ff61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 10:44:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 026847d9deea8a101f7800d3f8eeceb5 SHA-1: af8da85961d148a819ecbaaa0e44a0f8c094eddf SHA-256: 7d8de76a1cf4ff612d0541f36ab445cde83e64f1513a167c729cd4bdbafabf17
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is intended to deceive users into interacting with malicious links, likely to download a second-stage payload. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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.
  • 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 http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f68231d6b3---16974502507.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c9b4e58b272632f2247b31309cc1a94/36706464532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b98b8c32df4---tefivojujupitaxizekatevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608431f5547d0---34839915453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a95rdvhvq1d7dgl2etb4spbjm/88376274821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0853ea8240---sufawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e12f9b34056---51764765383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087dfad5065a---76311632811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongthuydotho.vn/upload/files/ziwugexunegolebajedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f88f87c75---21039944220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/523855ed868427be82383421178b459c/9089901195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77fb34ec76d39d33c264556cb84e8df8/gurasuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/irrtf4uvorvcehvuljqse61fck/raviwadarorolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b296bb154cceb4edb3569d6271a8fee4/61697455142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/17917274371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f12343506e8073bf9df2ba93362fa2c/48930881863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tm3iqpko4t3t93ug4c774ccqog/lizafimikimejexib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b2d9a44d9---gevusowenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079067b53995---11084210836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e81b08592f---nuwufexineduzojeselini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bclgrouptt.com/userfiles/file/kumijesoxabuvivofelede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/rawurita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g008g3qsbjldhpueeg46jfpmm/6564704146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=purchase+order+managementPDF 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_off00012626.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12626 17460 bytes
SHA-256: a136bddf8a440743bb09ac5925451874f0befffa5ed11ecf695bb6332eff675c
font_01_sfnt_off00015421.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15421 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 2cdedc6e69f3bc5dc3969ee9d6e17a878d40937086c1e9f525364fef2cd91ed6
font_02_sfnt_off00016c9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1