Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b84fa269c773106…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:48:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 2c664ac4b0ecff270b1dbec286eb7336 SHA-1: 2b1b1cc7a1590b3a5b81f1a992c59c38df609632 SHA-256: 8b84fa269c7731062224ea74ae351f58ce78ecb20a0eeb737943ebfc8147fe5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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=how+to+make+grey+acrylic+paint PDF link annotation
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/topadezimigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9824abbfbc---fovezuxememevozuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigsvatcharasith.com/userfiles/file/61721182407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkaganjil.com/contents//files/82219178334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6086510df---36383466357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d828c7be5---92355640000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/155cb83e41f274f9a7eee40279aa892b/50530623349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/22179412905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6292f5409ee3f7133597988820bbd9bb/sidup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/995uaa52al597n9ohltnlefr07/bijikagotuluvapetikef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malabarmail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34677583626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/gisodememogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d03d0167d2---pifufagukorixamumunonopur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53f67c9ea1eab678e5e9a73c95742045/72932923081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607955fad7770---66939829592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e32b7dd562639826f2698a9a02d62232/46747685057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eadff73c498db08e6edbf20d96a7c49d/20807077129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4cf3d0f415---vemofuxokubexoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linuxnewyork.com/draft/media//tomexidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dd50c5dae2164c9fa629650a5df14bc/79810539587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/98416961959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ad788e79dde108f9282b36818e3bb73/zedipokusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithattamphuong.com/upload/files/wavumudopolojeluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1a66399c8e3ba418f0cf7ef53c59f0e/wugunekikizepud.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_off0000dcc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCC9 16164 bytes
SHA-256: 9e973e946938aef1d5d4b7ccd1120e0a08828eeeb5449763c161faaecab0ddd0
font_01_sfnt_off00010689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10689 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 9da812135f66f3c5903e317e0e625eba2614aeac020e3c6a0ef1b6135cce9aa4
font_02_sfnt_off00011f88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1