Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba67d7779cab0cd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 12:49:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 973c13b596d0a54340749d3cab73c486 SHA-1: eb4330b5ce435aec350b33df1a44cce74811b776 SHA-256: ba67d7779cab0cd1c8688b91a6585eaa0842d11b46e28184ea3b1d9f4a70cb8b
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 as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting sites. These links are likely intended to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=everyday+use+by+alice+walker+summary+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747d472f0da---kigijalisiran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00266f17d6a2b8534741873c893e376e/zixuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078abedd42f6---nobetevefajezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/nosagenoviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b913910ee---vomegopelorevitufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/30956040523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/38633889612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609923985ffe6---29424966729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608777efbe839---lawatafuninuvebisun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-17/20210517133533253608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d58967bd36---fimafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a679cb75e96---misowibejovipome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/21596770998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1fda8df08f---96709574471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fc1648cc7---povivid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tragiaocolamsapa.com/userfiles/image/file/74177890361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf5bd8c261---kovasezusapade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/303acd4e6fba88396ec0a0d80be84ca1/laxuman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cddc70ffc6---76279842532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbda0595b1d---28999894008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0445d3abc6f768d1442344e0f6c7da4/nirilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210604_F941B4F872B10659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunbulsa.org/~ewedd2/userfiles/file/9298635193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c184700fcf6---paxebuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f2b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B8 11040 bytes
SHA-256: dc61043018e897ed6912f7c32cd267c1abe3c0e7d4215a4290d186a78fd69882
font_01_sfnt_off00010c39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C39 16928 bytes
SHA-256: aa12a2e70c8e0e39ef042593f04aecca81241fe0780a3355c6dfa14cf3f952c6
font_02_sfnt_off000137e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1