Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0ed890fc551228f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:42:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: ab1890b9455cee72ec8b8ffef79f8f61 SHA-1: 31b6739ba275ae43b0dd1f56e82e16a5bfbe9b09 SHA-256: b0ed890fc551228f5c25da5275cdf998940efd2df824b0e03817339e754ff649
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators points towards a tactic of distributing malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/251fa9fea274275dfa59f32a9ded391a/62923608233.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f9707b7ca950419865d250ae4077d99/52623502886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/81696704223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/zewonujogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor80.com/clients/866172/File/4990415029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b213jm7k9c6i4kev2v5e22npb/348404990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8df288b0ac2ae1974066390b93b37225/59776496023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/luxilazafinozikatux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/mejadum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c487de98f2---82346066226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609850f6af303---70252715431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d4d20fec5---97458728294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/84838026361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b853c42645d---zasiginarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danies.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kegeluxalejamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b3b399ce6ef1c80959287d879a8c54e/14235422840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f484c96ba---30502950471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hv3pgq08oukdbp2hhinge4m7ev/maxikopazulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc33dccaff1---zopulamuvafivirawuluda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f52033f87bb78af343f9192b7b7f1d55/godijowamoxolegat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d24f230d452---tadupetexunofibulajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/karitoloxezovududemer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7dd51671a---73112657457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=burning+in+chest+remedyPDF 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_off0000f92f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011141.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11141 16528 bytes
SHA-256: e7e22cc2c2223cdda532171c2fe800ce3dda9367ea073746232c5982d362b8a3
font_02_sfnt_off00013c47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C47 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 4739159b43bd7bbfa34436c84354896ace070d3c7b6b707258ab64d4bede3df7