Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80d9484a6fe9dfb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:06:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: a4102136698eb70fb1397da6ba77711e SHA-1: 6677f4ffd4a2d63fafdd96bb5823cad628de8198 SHA-256: 80d9484a6fe9dfb7e84839f5c681433baedefb9782ee8aac5d452f822c22d4db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as hosting for other PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of link farms on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or leverage existing infrastructure for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab02cb84d53---93404719274.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eadcd658963911bec167dc8ced5c3354/87164380614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juvumezepaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/73303292903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0065438d3e00150700cec0e7194e5424/tepulinobimexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081356e2aa0d---sexolidemuromaduzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nd2ej1870ihs5j3mb67guvuk1t/linerofefixizivufowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7849cd4dc---10228811034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/misijabofawuduvek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/kemuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9d016c614c---wuduvurizupawux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085533ce7ef9---tesobapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///toteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3d833f8aa---52726433225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d25359bbe7---finusodurapuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7a1e95990---83041868192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1ddf01afe4cbce37befa31fd2147a76/47459460097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12v38ja1e65umn78jb8pi9glk5/zifagibot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dee0841afc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085950aebb0a---lubegozoropipevedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31be1723db1720bbb93357afc986d174/67170963729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c227617687---92215111714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706ed3edc0a---sapotozasilenotuwiwudufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=showing+boobs+for+moneyPDF 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_off000104ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FF 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 82f20bf27900d22be2cd76f40edcc92c917f080db77e62d0410c23d60fc37f71
font_01_sfnt_off00011da9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA9 17340 bytes
SHA-256: ffc0e86422f876dce3db1aac664ce70d165389fb62aafc8b0be299433dfe885e
font_02_sfnt_off00014aeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1