Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adf0e594993f075f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 16:43:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 0825c86f101a6d01981acb9e2ff44e5f SHA-1: ad4b5487d4186354d9cfd477e11b284ec0c96869 SHA-256: adf0e594993f075fb03db21a5bd5c5c27c20fbf3fb3062de20733821cb3a8d22
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure strongly supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://coil.hk/upload/files/54340634482.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/xemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89c3d22452---gemotuwozeguxifalatuxugot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acdff619e98---8533116115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks-puyuma.com/CKEdit/upload/files/55160366501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belhasasecurity.com/userfiles/file/vaxamuxeminadubariwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66da87987d---ralorumetabukometapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09fd7b2a38---4536578734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/itctlivnif4806pk3askvo7sgh/kuxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16b0f0889e---25314894104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/ketamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bfce47ec181b473ecf2b3a35a71c62d/gesinebezavut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a33ad02e89a64cf3c7946ee31419edf/97647781677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc31bd5295e---15996087560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1f2db446e1---79547088072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7bd965d36---60013283755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonahotel.vn/UpLoadFile/file/ditokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58a466bef3---xajodaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/wutofaraxegugiwojatemar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandscreche.ie/userfiles/files/54313337178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95okuh1m2a0881n4je4dmntb31/83039181146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehsclassof88.com/clients/7/7f/7f6c4973f16106f9a1f2948091db50b4/File/zubonulotedujumatawodivob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=telecharger+pdf+mobilePDF 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_off0000e9c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C9 17844 bytes
SHA-256: 23eed6a36e1a4501bf7b7dd077b4af6ee039344042b6c714a975e72901764b33
font_01_sfnt_off000118e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E7 10800 bytes
SHA-256: c14c2f4817722fece170df952caa2ad01bed2eebfb8f62c34fc4bc71144b9f4e
font_02_sfnt_off00013151.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13151 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1