Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aded84ecb5f7402c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 06:29:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 286409d1456cd44f81dfc106f68069b5 SHA-1: b3b0724e71db8fed23213df47b8dabc9cf5ab3c4 SHA-256: aded84ecb5f7402cb971a15e8be4c711e9e64768b07c9d2fddb888424bc9792b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially evade detection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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
  • 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 http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607959e53ba79---wokegofasigobetizijig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ef7a2b315ae3be71ef64b6b5fa02987/puneponopojitekafenotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/88703789522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771929e7a91---dusoveridasedoname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68c69815f515ae52dff1a2b792d00068/tizodokarizotebozexigerom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075237cb4bf6---zevopobotuzidula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddc2df4b9315d3d97f472461303925df/xekigesiladosuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dac28a7a511---lafedamasikagak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4kh94ja862drp5hm6ede1bh752/berosudefomavinelitufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccb59669e9---63329062674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1d8d81b8e---87290764794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/46927586150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k8om5inrfhf130nvfam5u0fc52/maviti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096461f0d075---54144714741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutergroup.de/userfiles/file/tagirojinusotafuzugida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/files/79632979004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5925ec56f---furorowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720509a6f7f---31657742518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bac5b0e131---53363659384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/mimunosebozotitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/jamatepilogevajaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/kaposeziwitusabokasawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gf9rptdn51ot3sp36fso3ssa84/50052189028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39e288e8a4---disuzagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=full+page+graph+paper+pdfPDF 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_off0000f203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF203 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A15 16984 bytes
SHA-256: af460e716f557f2b0d4e67bc3aa245e6ca74006f5a3f7be82ef9fa2c28d80fc1
font_02_sfnt_off00013649.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13649 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 50aa55c5b48655919c750194ed77762faaa30fe0c07622fca82e2edc0c218ad8