Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc68a994fff41a93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 11:07:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 952abe65acd67e54eb660394a00a7f5e SHA-1: 94c0625709913133c72ddd7edf4a2b866416e13d SHA-256: cc68a994fff41a93b6753763deaf2b8c96d7aa9160559842523c692e3446a7bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=driver+license+schedule+appointment+pa PDF link annotation
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e335d7f4a9---boboxonadoxopiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/81066252497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c7115df2c---nipudokuziketitemerod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/purefakezim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikitellirezistans.com/upload/files/suluxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0d4ebf8e8---34156846158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7369fa018315e3a89b43f094719be2c/rekadeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e677a1800acdd755738f0e8919715cd/vesepunapipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/lodigebomazukibiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/gitabalogabip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40b040738e5d3c643fd9bd35232d5410/zetegizom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d485185f8d794c502f4e61f44a995730/rulomepajewuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/16626732941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/52156095439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87051098f6---39522826516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mp98np2dl6mf3sjefkau1v5mj3/5767496836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b2b1118b1---mawomeluwenugupinade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c32dc25950b---rujarifut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcc74f0074---zikodivigosute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinhadventure.com/uploads/file/29745342239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e1a4a803417dfdba13967cf27731ea7/rogapenokoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jun-travel.com/userfiles/file/pulesiren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ermveklmp4igj5qqego4qt6tv4/63855067317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///2021060582856_361044205.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_off0000fc8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC8A 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 0ef6b23036d913357fa36cc9270a0ffeee51655bd6637da20649b7df82b56046
font_01_sfnt_off000115b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115B6 17220 bytes
SHA-256: 932f486aad16d091dd03855ab63e563a581e45c8c9fb7da6dc1e0ff91da89731
font_02_sfnt_off0001427f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1427F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1