Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88db77c18800eb01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 02:51:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 9673c4e277bdf5de373c7a51d7499996 SHA-1: 0ef658b13081cd2b46b96407f6e9de7f6683cb2a SHA-256: 88db77c18800eb016145e1b240756708d1565f54130f85f1962ff2835668bc5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the primary attack pattern being the distribution of malicious links.

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=in+physics+what+is+magnitude PDF link annotation
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba18f897b74---33764629569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29b74ed4dc---79291964691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3r8mtem26jb906drhl15rsjru2/83797710765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9cfea3576---kawituruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7ee597af7---pukurelovakaropi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostingalani.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nolinanotelewosilopomuder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/69543040792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859fe1abe57---58202412081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pomspnko7dktpadm2u6signqv2/50145353763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/86387774818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/97830296631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnkingdee.cn/Files/file/202162172921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ri74um27h7smg821np9oip1iiq/roxowilazezudomutobirit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gvs-russia.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99626065551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/22885828245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49692fabdee143a868f51912873484ec/11275060946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37620770989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07345f909d6126c812ccc588b2eac748/12209056050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/31628060592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bb565df61---53172628502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/jufepejusupadelod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a46f8758834436d898c985b4b33c9655/82668058463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8981828ff---81409313885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d5d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000edeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDEB 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 2d10bd7be648cb8117213cb5222f56eade5cb17169f7e10a7a3ceb4046666652
font_02_sfnt_off00010702.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10702 16284 bytes
SHA-256: 205a7855b7b75a681f89e63f9171be9c9deed78a0fd18fa78b67d4963555e9c6