Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3fcbfc859f8d95b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 16:57:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 82ca29c065a5b2f76eadd340788fd8cb SHA-1: b335041aaf80ba461d13a1add4e66e06c78483ca SHA-256: a3fcbfc859f8d95ba53bd15eead379dd1db2ce8bfba55d903d8995f684f3fcd0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites hosted on disposable domains. These links are likely used to distribute further malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bcdombnedf10i255dd7u4e4ts/94898447749.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/39010950544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/72946630087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21f360fbd051b3292d526d87025c36cd/27019007603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd25c9fed124289660a26fbb32cb15e7/bufiwilolala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c47aa05998b---54239564770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5994f42021---37975074872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712cb22a6a7---956482594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5e0f47e51572ce07f4bbb34ffddff55/raxanefovakiwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiorampinelli.com/file/dakupoketi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e698268da8---xotidilixokozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82b1789fae---32953442735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28dc77d084e5f9a44d130bb5410086db/93310101916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/dekelegumagijun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/40747384386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/10781438772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/puruvazifivunidanezoleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/lurobetodokezuwunugimuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkettes.org/clients/b/b3/b30d687fb0e6fb0c44210170e51784d9/File/27857555582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e975d65b41712ddce4184190fa92076/xalejabojobikutulosagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608205481cce1---sobotagob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609452e809e5e---49918654128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be519460f357b7379cf26bb84c8b609b/53633595113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2c19333ca5ab7cb234bcb1b5a6ad7b3/77920797981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5a3a67e57---wivanuberoxuduvubov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=whipped+cream+and+sugarPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A3 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae
font_01_sfnt_off00010eae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C5 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 7c8e730c41148f7d250fdb0942ffcc743f5a7820bf429e34be5ba4df23a50401
font_03_sfnt_off00013f38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F38 18036 bytes
SHA-256: 70615ce3c416af0002463bf06e7be0fc3060e5c85463522a94271bbe65a3e0ae