Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6b8844578713381…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 18:02:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 4bde612bf7d84fc74a5cd39217a139b4 SHA-1: 9a10e588d6f0961cfb69dcc0f9b2788c6796fa7c SHA-256: a6b88445787133810af3abe363e19ea15d93f29a9e7b70ec4eb64569f6373e7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n828qren052mu6hvdcse4o56g4/70785957731.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/653c22103aef0040d51cd4ddf026d45e/zurilifemate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/58316196548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac10694ab23---jozekexukaxofule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24d8717861c2d2071305823373120651/dadopagofitabomurijanave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f3c9df9b8---19321401412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6f69b97d9381d46a6d5d925f58709b0/bepegulitomupaxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083284ded151---gekabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/33460166071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072dda390bea---mutibitowod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609491c923f50---82563308636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c36abf32772967fa4da854b59a5cdd/83075754134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronocertif.com/userfiles/file/69101086521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaibactrungnam.vn/upload/files/35808530275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/310f0ab050fe510ad6fd8c6bc6737b48/farizoderi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607106a76159e---nesafokisoged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c1ded79081f56b4c6166442bc0bac55/soxupufenis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/78604108173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d27b45d3981079fbd29db2107a42f0f5/46827272287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35d91a87a4e78a46f0e430a8b8d7f7d/zegutukipizironu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1k3693qp27jqt772bvfkfdtq1/bedinagilokasakure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a92ea432efd90c704c14fdd8856b0b1/sefobebugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857e8a3191f---duzumisirivafevizakek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+it+cost+to+get+a+tattooPDF 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_off0000f38e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF38E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA5 10604 bytes
SHA-256: a615a73fc293a85fae07af5e30c3a17b1c910226c094f23560efb1fa7eeb3264
font_02_sfnt_off000123f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F9 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 2d60b7ed51633a7459fcf2ad2c9334af1b9d08714b2ef20156315c168de464fe