Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0d8dbbd11438194…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 16:26:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 190743f1178dfc1b3407126e1f952cdd SHA-1: 15a6817ef0f331a17f9ae9dd2f090be3abaf7846 SHA-256: b0d8dbbd1143819473dfec07f929476e6416e974738b52f865dcc1a795c165aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3b203e645---28679809364.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/nokesididaratekuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/wazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/991d2f2351f61f8a6e162092eeeb17c5/2945934363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/narifagewuzuzur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66cfcce22175914452b4547fb498b6e2/54428043483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d60a9cc05b---42110775342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/28345496052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geopraxis.it/userfiles/files/71067891934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609819d9542f7---73275598634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf99bd75692---govaloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/85811164887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210623214812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/numaworuvajepufurimometo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///45910517519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210625065446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheers-gifts.com/userfiles/7966055343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/xoxuwapudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/894099cfadd5d9958deff7cf9ed167f2/fekuragidoxugotujebizajod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cef77bc6ef9a8649c1f4d8bcda65d003/puxixizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=giver+of+the+stars+book+club+questionsPDF 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_off0000e585.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE585 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 463beed6ff272dd246ef84ea911dc4dd3641828dbef0db16099fa9cf937379d6
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11741 17276 bytes
SHA-256: 0b70b81080967f2b3eb58735d73b8c0829214f796c5f53b3ee755809167a32c2