Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd17bee85b249115…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 06:30:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: acab3d3bfb2374d04b20a7e181eb72be SHA-1: b854db706d516bda2ceaa29ab5284f9446f801c1 SHA-256: cd17bee85b2491157eafa0e52890404604ab973cc10653253362eee7bca1f96e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous other PDF files hosted on various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. This technique is often used for SEO poisoning or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9773

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://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbee09f4fdf447fe6277df21563f22d2/32155422038.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/97135210938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da9d327d72af2ae325f4f452be18546c/39051160248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encoregallery.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa03eda7f9afdb0a51364323e0cdd8bc/91946306532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63521053937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe2fffb034ae02618063991ce3b899f5/famagilivuxofegimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cfa0a4584d---18674571701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhtopgde2vsl293mtrr9jrho30/rudemep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://24emk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25541554998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbbc379738---zemufobagupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://workinhotel.com/upload/fckfile/88025211148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3839f2b0d---22044132364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kk9rshok4gi9iel7t4oh8l9b6b/65934033162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/33788204689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h187evu32kqeusqim5d96tf6k5/82719793680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762ca21d287---65385593508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarlakesarea2040.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18852458054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a3voig7h2t2boino1muihh8jc/95233507435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbnkva0nvlrdlt5no7v74ots09/janizaxugiburewaxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafgambiatours.com/userfiles/file/nigotobineset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocm4v7icdvitv0kmnus42s6gg2/9440682461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b7213658c---jomomopaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1759cibn1uqiqo7j8es951o0dn/nuxinifejofixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/16875927258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/98743348533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eqc58do7puho7n38te8sm2hm4q/pevibukitirujerenopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=angles+of+a+rhombus+equalPDF 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_off000130e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000148f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148F7 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 0dcac32b9c21e3f5dd985e5c7c85d1362743df35841c62d55fc9f8881e4455fc
font_02_sfnt_off0001796a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1796A 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 3c1b50b4a0da80551e70afd26229341212631f5e5061b2f8eaf1ac521c0632ae