Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 896244993a33bfe2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 18:58:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: bad7d5084653fb5e315fcd164758d1cd SHA-1: 702d2fc6e203f3e9d0a82133666fa6729f310d96 SHA-256: 896244993a33bfe27ffcc82c7715390e9f0eb2db54be2afc79551d924d29e5b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of multiple PDF-specific heuristics related to URI and link farms indicates a pattern of redirecting users to potentially malicious external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://enricobarraco.com/files/toxomomaxaresonosoxus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5n94jnm8kan200gsoh86360ug/dejopukurekitojose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c56f729c4e---30990462312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b390cf796---sunobixetesagozis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c5e9044b0---vesilabotewij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aaf94dc2a5---daxelitezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d642e17ee4---28166614374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/90243090993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608296e91a2ba---sonevobuxujekadukeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91274aed9d2ec3e8ac21288ff565b11f/sofafezudavexesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f140592d480229348df92d86759192c/gepomirawumevagumomulores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///tuvopesitumafatev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/80991287758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://champion-osk.pl/userfiles/file/jabevojur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f759be9939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be91759086d---85844642185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202104/file/27989361797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floraplant.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/39028916544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bb336356022b208405e9aa3c50471df/72483532280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=funny+golden+girls+quotesPDF 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_off0000eb5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB5E 17368 bytes
SHA-256: cc7f211307a6d4a76d5ffdb7ba86388095dc65491992e72a1f3721996a3dc366
font_01_sfnt_off00011888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11888 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 8343df35a23c9977538448828808386ca946bb28141a7f9c280570383af00324
font_02_sfnt_off00013059.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13059 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1