Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a57c388f31b98370…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 07:13:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 178b6437df4d05f5aac1113885529044 SHA-1: dd75792670fb2cf184855b98fc07a2d5b5a3c9df SHA-256: a57c388f31b983702bff9807b3365fff5d505f24abb76790b78eaa9c32c573c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a malicious link farm attack pattern.

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://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0894b08bd---28677397883.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd2355cb0e---dotarozotujunereb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyiat.com/html_upload/file/76573943501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b540e9a91---gawoxepolafibawok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/64058582122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0o1j7mip030u5jku1sdkhs3m5k/vekoloxasabexim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhibaosang.com/media/ftp/file/60372642090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/sunugikoturikus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d93df3b3e0f---10930362862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salinahighschool1968.com/clients/3/33/33fcb9b832a528c934b1ac42c6b88a99/File/52740871157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9q3adlqh70e1u52fcj05jeppah/wizemujak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801cbe728c7---pixevutokenemupomori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afpqi5ekl8kqr9n6pkpq56d7b2/84285903167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/3549575943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxbrio.kr/files/files/xavobazigovuziberude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazdooradda.com/userfiles/file/voxojetesuwutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070573b72fda---67033948000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f6349ade126c6e37b79080ca528d45f/99965545232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab33fee7520---34550827669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoctienganh123.net/upload/files/13329433913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/71208572011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713b22e5dd8---siwekeguxanaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i8io0e8sdtf65cjdd9u5thges4/vetesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakirkoytemsilcisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa6ccf3c65---40797019301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=bsbadm502+assessment+answersPDF 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_off0000fcd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCD1 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 1d2f861eb223932237722765495c562a87c3255c7f84ed4f4a3394092b6887b1
font_01_sfnt_off000115ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115EE 16288 bytes
SHA-256: 7c93e5221d766c39152cd7abac4c148a15b28f78015f3f131597034060f1c414
font_02_sfnt_off00012bec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BEC 17096 bytes
SHA-256: ff0cd1e941710955acf055c0171cd0f8a49deb39cd29b43d3b6fbf8782b4832b
font_03_sfnt_off0001589a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1589A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1