Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aac8058a740f95f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:42:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 456fd1b8f6005b9ddec57010ece9fa5c SHA-1: 92ea77c874ed3dd6f4b74c887b1a3b9dd57355cc SHA-256: aac8058a740f95f44fa973ababb1669e2efed38950ace5f979c0e96802114261
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings suggest this PDF is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 5

  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=latin+american+cafeteria PDF link annotation
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6tjuenr8v0rsvuhnm2na4gve7e/zupafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd666f565df---16845893206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edff98c1c69---78278017624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b0003389a3770e027c5350b7b06748a/39480868435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098aeabc22da---nogupebejetaxonamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f82d25b305---11141684550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721921d7a3b---83988074226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc44f606c2---liviperesibazomagudil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelamadeustorino.com/userfiles/files/nalukekojevebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/gimojonosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u2lfcb1jr3082d0ukvi8j0nlo5/22577469850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/51989111588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/29403637903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lo2545fnkbfcg1h84bbl89llfq/93557830447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5i21qoannamitgkl8cuq22p6id/38712675778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/rokaviros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/vitexaduxotukosuweve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca95a6b14b---89738080829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098938e236d1---26598745900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agjlwjc3g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovipuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhigh78.com/clients/2/2d/2ddbae4fb74c169819b3574d76e4e264/File/63553319341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071aba166dfe---bazotakozejaviwigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dd7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7F 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 50a8b93c59542b899cb0f01961ae2f0f56823c1e39ff927c3dfbe8c481948a65
font_01_sfnt_off0000f403.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF403 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C15 18096 bytes
SHA-256: 51440918127bc332fecaa3e6a44fd3f74594c30aeb94838144ae0deb9f8df3e6