Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc50189d550063fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 05:23:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 3b0936c87a2ca9f2a8e90e9ce15460a9 SHA-1: f2ca06bbc20729f27ed09fa8eb7841c8655d06c6 SHA-256: cc50189d550063fae3c4f2bee4a7818ea3c02431363ab9469a1b8b046c89b535
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links on potentially malicious infrastructure is the primary indicator of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/71863705229.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e09106f9ab---lokejifip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/26285847369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a04d3d5cb---5658485669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kibamisoxisonalek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f0bbb58a6e4969197cd3eedeacdef13/gexukalorovogamozizojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eff38cbd5b---726176151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ifeqkqjimh6p070qtjvddi2v9/zirafojomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/50357821858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62acbe1cbb---faduwivizidele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nai8r694j7t95s7rfdmfshqde6/13089365528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bhrsr67mma761lls1po5chjips/xomotusidakarunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/769029b8a65390c047330e1ebd54d79c/82316641056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/toxojamoxogatefuluxopupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a20b80598---lozubokorimikijogumasusot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchiseharbor.com/files/files/98644745948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982015e9e76---15032200237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/lajujefitimigizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyxedayhang.com/userfiles/files/golufuzuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dcace70f56---94422604971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/79948219387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090dfff467d7---nulowetupotosopiboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/503247572c955cad22d59707d1f47247/34342194605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/nanakanemufov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=comma+after+so+examplesPDF 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_off0000e4f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F2 17248 bytes
SHA-256: b6ba090958a8c4587fffcfb1f732394363bdfb51c6f3cc5617f74db6900abac7
font_01_sfnt_off000111cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CB 10456 bytes
SHA-256: f7874d02748410ebcdb611624e1aa5b28cee0adf5eff97854832f49c9e80a34f
font_02_sfnt_off000129a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1