Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aef72ea16c3f57ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 11:53:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 39d9151e8379431b079523686fd243d9 SHA-1: a3f87f19103b429a7f89a5d80bcc84b7bfe43d3c SHA-256: aef72ea16c3f57ca0ed23d6f6132ba460e789d65ca8f74bbd4daabfdc1034e4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these links to deliver a secondary payload or conduct phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/salapimipalovapesuw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vj2q90k5otfesb3gl11db2ocsq/ponenajizaxiweledodirope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hazeloyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/14112418849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vencedor.coop/images/admin/file/gotefabinalemezavituluga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/54927497836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/74945223758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5711160f5c---85976167976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/93109000986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/13505089639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b790f719a4---46664747134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/55615595079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/826e80006b1cc752a40786479c43c10d/sifururip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93jfi6431vmp50j1gmkm76tp1p/wofosikikukisuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077242c59f46---ridigabomera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sl9cord6inqh4kpbserqijgmrc/lirotavekegopolavitagape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/143c0c3437825a71f4b1326ebb8bed02/62104733912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/zutir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceff5a464a8---lokisixabimasutubakowoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/guecqmffsa7l81icovtr0ie6q9/doxemomaritevumujexotun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/081f1db5e68a950f7856b23356c867fc/48860082319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813328d8ca5---17140122925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608788ecb470a---xegigozamikuxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyxedayhang.com/userfiles/files/54699538027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/26755712670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=a+particle+moves+along+a+straight+line+with+constant+accelerationPDF 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_off0000e604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE604 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE16 17732 bytes
SHA-256: f67ad7e2d153fea86f77eb582fdcc3d69bb1ffd4c8bbebe73bc8bf7cf3d2455d
font_02_sfnt_off00012c71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C71 10952 bytes
SHA-256: ff3dfde69796158c8ddc0ac3b9414f95c4a2e8578c6ba9de2422e143c851cb9e