Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c79eae19ffa3cd0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 15:32:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 84d75a973e19f51a89df14af82681dc8 SHA-1: 2b3e0ef4dff9780f83e502dc49650f01c3927c0b SHA-256: c79eae19ffa3cd0a6c5ce945dc55be74aa935bb5a9fa92f625ad846ba3c916ad
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within the 'super-forms' and 'formcraft' plugin upload directories. These links are likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or further malware downloads. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the heuristic firings confirm the presence of a link farm on compromised CMS uploads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

Heuristics 5

  • 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://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6j51l8srkpb3rqi9ap6gao6p3/55308655972.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e3aaa8022a86d0dfa004428c4b85dac/doliwovixajux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3db922312a---51655271184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobinco.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tinilorudude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ht53ffo2d63n71ntavsco0im8t/pazavogomatosoxosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29f8cc212dc7ddf39b9c0e440739e6ac/bexemefajunokokesijomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/gexeniwosuniwopibes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/67848913307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloexdr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01d97e86722fea80a97e1efa60fc6892/45755340060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/soglvbubocv2u0t193tap6kc1h/64298239584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b31ee31a7---41196340111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/6532071892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1536804f37741fa58babc447ecbc9dc/mirotobalerozesigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/94252330271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e4ac50904---50701039135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahispesinde.com/gnc/veri/_files/kifalaxojuvibijogute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/6870804380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkngsp.ru/upload/files/bukibukurajod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210603093558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3315156cb35818c46bcd3b0b46a6dc57/9065938164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01070cea142042d299b325079b8c9a3c/86608283267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5mocr7mjpr6ih2e6c5iop01qhm/jotujoder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=father+and+daughter+sketchPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/569306aa715dcbc4dd251b26460fe2a4/pinuwefuviga.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_off0000cfc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFC4 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 7dc6661bae0b9711b4fc2142efea3567ed294b8fc0fdcf8497948ab538cb5e13
font_01_sfnt_off0000e797.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE797 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 1728294f612dafe1900d3de818b8bcee4db41980d2690b184d24081ee253c240
font_02_sfnt_off000115f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1