Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8bb64f4ea4ad390…

MALICIOUS

PDF

465.2 KB Created: 2021-12-15 04:54:59 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-04-06
MD5: b10ac0e926a59c9e99152266a6d7a8e4 SHA-1: c6c28a06890489b057de985db0e93bf852b351a2 SHA-256: a8bb64f4ea4ad390d9c9cfd6a64eb647f611a823d6c69b3283b8b5a2dd654d66
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains multiple links that are part of a link farm, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The document body text and heuristics indicate a 'free-download phishing' lure, aiming to redirect users to malicious PDF files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier confirm the malicious nature of the file, likely serving as a phishing document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5902

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
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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.
  • 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://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/buwutanukulomegi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kondoreskiss.hu/term_extr/files/9798520404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imaggu.com/ci/userfiles/files/57592571228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1617918515cd6c---82781693199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangyi-pump.com/uploads/file/26125301870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaustabilo.com/contents/files/30093944646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leasebridge.com/CKUPimg/files/14932675009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eichler-kammerer.de/33855116989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/42940176965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/zosan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a168388642c39476f5c3ca67241b4b59/lixuzoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616a50825bcb8---69285813849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/zogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/779bebdf19a2faeb4a70b5d67bf7c07e/31770742371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsaltsj.com/uploads/files/wakupipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamolenasnc.it/userfiles/files/pediledebinapanagirovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/nikin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yifufloor.com/uploadfile/fckedit/file/1637101191qrfF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/sezuvuvuvevit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/nekite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/safizalivesulori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kindspring.org/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/polafubezulowegubam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akwarella.pl/user_uploads/file/14142382809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettobotteonpierpaolostudioabacus.it/userfiles/files/56606190304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147a37c25ba1---jeburenasanobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/oscUj7J0Gjw/uplcv?utm_term=quem+%C3%A9+mais+provavelPDF 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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0006d1de.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0006d1de.bin)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0006d1de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D1DE 20944 bytes
SHA-256: 2ac55680717671b0a4715af1cb9690693c8aa5d0c00c204705783c643b02d961
font_01_sfnt_off000705cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x705CC 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 2093a5235fa4a6a17fd611d9b46eb4ebaed89defb53654b7c3edfbec81437483
font_02_sfnt_off00071dc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71DC9 16416 bytes
SHA-256: cfa2c3fbce80cc5607e01af033b793d17c57c214fb1d96e845eedea48cccd336