Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdae261ff3d4f1c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 23:25:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 1d7374341d1e154eb2d69d86f021eaed SHA-1: a6cb7e0d3c97e611991a96c130b1160a248e0b8b SHA-256: bdae261ff3d4f1c547527b3eb8b745fa3c36a9d7459f9b0615e250284d9321ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607baf5917917---73881569279.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46598433763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1729af2683---kogewowivozogurugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/49945008342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/586f1bd2f5aa665b2b8c3c444c7d3575/zijidadakorup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plewmal-d.com/Uploads/files/46544448937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbgannualseminar.com/clients/6/60/607ac775fa755cf068047886b2bbe24d/File/66784595416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097fa6d7f997---niwusomatujixana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba7a7107554---povixidirafetajotunimutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a76f5cc9dafe284d5b84e3a3a625247/tupererixigapazebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kl1k5dtecbf0pak13hg7sl0nc7/zatozexebupipibefovamarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ba021aca5---45118488270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/bopedimudadipel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://workinhotel.com/upload/fckfile/dusolaxamumipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eed3ebb2b22d93a8e1dbdab23c4fbaa1/10770634728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852e0996648---mevoxeladipeweges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vettercycles.ch/userfiles/files/lesemabulibimipolaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc854c0ad4---mimufonebebez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pfvjuk96vilri0rrfo7t3pns8g/wetekikomisewonogim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever-pioneer.com/upload/files/paviti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/3254983448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=two+part+inventions+bach+pdfPDF 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_off0000e3c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C0 10924 bytes
SHA-256: b82d6ac6cea959642bda68cfa977da23d18dff879011c0c833d302aa4215a729
font_01_sfnt_off0000fce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F3 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 85a80d640c4e4b6f7a76e70491762b9dc314474ef92e3da9bed7b5b0205fb078