Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad0c6f0b6b17fde0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:19:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: e9ce9470555a49643d359846f3d2daeb SHA-1: 7204a148096dd0b0c1c697b6cd822aea710919a1 SHA-256: ad0c6f0b6b17fde0b3b3f241af0392111734fa6a5fb7620598f656a6f294cc09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL patterns indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+avengers+film+series+videos PDF link annotation
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/xarijasemovapisewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blbr365.com/userfiles/file/1624132417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semineebrasov.ro/printuri-fi/files/vebedujekowum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210523034247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/457bc62b2a859cb32a1fb5118825c1cc/4492549152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbd12ebe803---sofajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ba06b0c4a---bolepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b6a0952db---90794784671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ece1f29275---61264241144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a04da6489---fakovuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pk3pka29gpeh6bsmpdnnac3h71/93262315121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/42665615352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/pofubune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rurkidhrna5tq2hjbi090l29d/pudujaboxexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5ae1b40bd---58526255866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b843b832c6c---putigudajena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/59252313129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/suruze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/12548930645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stl-hk.net/userfiles/85319730021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44mvk9soq4gbfufnlae19t0uvl/24875112395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086078e35b46---tabakug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5j5hklv88bbhhuadjs9kjmsp3/75689307367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f7beb0c4b---90698440435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/tuzaridotazabuka.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_off0000f1ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1AB 10732 bytes
SHA-256: aaff223d883546cff10eae6e6f252843410b6997c739be19647e1762f30bdd2f
font_01_sfnt_off000109e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121F4 17860 bytes
SHA-256: b5edb4dda32e382c41bb209f8c3ef643d84c2f02ed95fe5444547dcb529de470