Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7b8cce66fb6771c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 02:34:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: a256cbd0d4556d8339d128ea50689b42 SHA-1: 13b37d77d0891b7151aa996d8f517bc5ec9e679d SHA-256: a7b8cce66fb6771cf1600378ab2e6f4b67a2338d47b667e5b9ef0497ba713038
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites hosted on disposable or suspicious domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/majexav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/35884205551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole.ru/text/images/file/74033799966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90koqu291h8me3hofu143h1qsh/73530607138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6334ba28f66d9c558fa17a5247e18638/fegikidujawadezupino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2i2umksgtaa53g0ags8fgnjc7u/wipapukezobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/54873077835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073299e3270a---3993405346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2ibmee2ohvebf7f1i8r0o12n3/wilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/gidukifuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/sumumobowujodovikinopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84e3459e75---54921470306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/bawexitazuwejajitinezol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b1a0b56f84c91df71e8d177037ba3f0/11985006795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f698650c5---73937989647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hejdjanid217kk7q8sg8rj0hkm/34443739328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e80562406d20c545529892c1483829c/pujinidisevizujaxewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51dee0b2e142b5e7a0fa850c54aba005/7601490860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citrasas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99982141781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a90dab427---bigopegedurelegulovepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1963.com/clients/7/75/758a827d59fb1c2827eec60421ffdc22/File/46859022799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a224bc4fb2---kepotomigegoxefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c245f8b0fe1---72755042209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=chill+in+englishPDF 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_off0000de4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f663.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF663 9940 bytes
SHA-256: a4e8aab818926955b0718f61ad55f8cb89b431854a270a64e88ac16aaa9600fa
font_02_sfnt_off00010c35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C35 20024 bytes
SHA-256: adeadb3bf94a97bd6e5840f8c701aee8a91408836abb0b293138d50b4d86828c