Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0831b382e02d4e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-17 12:56:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: b57986bda0bb0cb7c16a6f21109a9587 SHA-1: e6b0178392318a6abd1ff16228ef26462dabbbad SHA-256: a0831b382e02d4e3fdce6d14e4845bb81aace303a7f2d0b884cb52f9aedf5a7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary function of this document is to serve as a link farm, likely to lure victims to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b71e96d8f---biwedufafatunukideru.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce84af3ae1---xuzoxemom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hud101.vn/webroot/img/posts/files/74694193545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913752b792a---35369564723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvienlaptop.biz/userfiles/file/84091631917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc0f63be8a81a1a0b81ab2a8788c6722/dideluranolozeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7af1c8b29e95f34080088939c28dcb68/43778269957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd80600fd3---42302261273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b7c65328b---81992951224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813b38b5194---63306169554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copab.tn/216mag.svn/uploads/files/54744318404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fefd9d6b9f---vinovepaxolixitap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkercombsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/df/dfd517ab040340b2551da60fba195f5f/File/33301027801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cf368d15ad9a7764d2e8e1d815f23c4/42125439408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/141754040f3c0873f2fa7e58fae2b72d/83216957433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afab983a9b---93307480421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/nimuligulaxaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ebb05a2f3---87931157077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/kujawitalepoxaxovoronutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe94c0866939ea76b1a7d6b31f2ae910/runipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0m3a4l56jqs9hgml2uq95cdo8/24031370991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfb9503be01---72256960901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e85899df8b1---91485937879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/wexosojutin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d8f98750fd81f5902fc7790cb611cbd/33413645679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+marginal+physical+product+of+laborPDF 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_off0000ebcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCC 16796 bytes
SHA-256: db6983b032a6772c2af9a174d5c69529353472870b6ad5838e97165727d2780e
font_01_sfnt_off000117ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117AB 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 93b75ee0d322b089d2593d06ddf43dae093ad684be34a9032febc8feb7146c18
font_02_sfnt_off0001318b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1318B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1