Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6a3ee69ac22790a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

128.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:49:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: f69351c57273a9907b15d1875ea85a24 SHA-1: 6881067cf0a6501bf030e6b186e5e36bbdc85b96 SHA-256: c6a3ee69ac22790a30a9350508cfd74acea82822692bc2f6f684ba85117c59f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDFs. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign where the initial PDF serves as a lure to download further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a0218e717---52697667507.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd63a638762a9ec0485cdb3215572657/24615499951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26b870f821fd70730eb10048eb7333fa/64996057256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/38255511576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cqk0unk56ujtchjjfn4m6qgo2/namixiwamekegopobesesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/385t0rqb67t1hvnv9ibaedmrr7/22029644176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f44044673fed0dcfdc72fc996a351af/kusiwape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t76c8ga9gg8p5nb3mjod9efqag/zenamupeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adreshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tazofajonakapuzorajapuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/028af9f0726d85bfd1cd8651ebde7a7c/napedojikoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/zutifulodun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/441d4f92b4fd9211b67cd23094b8932f/6253159619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f1032d096---6182910440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69d6261103f59b6cd61ef34e3826c9d7/dekoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/39855744137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9da3aedbc---66018758845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odukkevpqkjuh0dm7esjudnqg3/tunabipoxuvin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608826184e547---80814968090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tantecoccole016.it/file/66087956254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9083162b497b52615bd19da60a64e9c/68233193878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafe-malaysia.com/contents/file/79267392786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superplasticizer.cn/d/files/vinerewojari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=shell+fish+dishesPDF 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_off000190ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x190AB 21344 bytes
SHA-256: 6690458b8dcb590b095bf4b40ec1c3c4115f5022a2a49f0d83869a9d40ffb434
font_01_sfnt_off0001c61b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C61B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001de31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DE31 9944 bytes
SHA-256: c08dd169f3702cc8fb59bf5f352f309a8a17c03ea57b119f56d78a65ce63f492