Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90eda2e4da5b121f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 23:44:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 8b6ce9dc54d191784ac260c640b41180 SHA-1: afbd434ed82f35829c79ad4e533c41bd08564251 SHA-256: 90eda2e4da5b121fab211698e83894fcc291fb1fe9eead0e69d1b0d3d2786f73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDFs. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75e7a5033aefe4d8d4fc8f3a4a992f8d/5599589166.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f400a3eef9272645ac4a3d4d4b37da7/gipobirerotejavoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f90f1daba---xuviwakupesexenove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775c6c79569---91994764184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab4768848162f9f0ab88b29b59d90a02/59751546358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pts24630tdu6ca3n4gg1op68d5/86935591870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3ff622d74d91380c48de25d9d33ea6e/rokefupemadajanotek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c79e5ea0622de5059f3593eb86b42fb5/suvuredolixivofisotaxexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869c3f09a4c---63966808736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab329dd9d00---ledokagelenimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/betaxazapiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/13289341119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/18628847800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tivatijapan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jegafuzim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a402468bbbbe5cbe83e3970203fc2fef/kimona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f25d186481---11936615405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/24489369161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/sapedegukodozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd12cb3bae---milopolisibux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4fea85384a5aed66b73842d1d92f65f/89968984173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=i+have+nothing+piano+pdfPDF 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_off0000d357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD357 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB69 16680 bytes
SHA-256: 0f005680fe260ed3c24562bca33574dda7f5456cd3fae8a609a19e2536904544
font_02_sfnt_off000116ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116EE 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 94847b1d8f8fcaf2dd270977f5d897d8bcd675cb973aee00cddb63562aadc114