Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0bfc46b3aeca29c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 05:00:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 1aab602a51cd7a1e446c40ee1a3a178c SHA-1: 58cae57a25ddbc405bfbe8b5b3ab5a10cd5574a6 SHA-256: d0bfc46b3aeca29c831785e04aba3bb42bc373a7f576eb51c1bf998237f69e88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to facilitate phishing attacks or distribute further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f979da6f80---75103804878.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/gusujonireribotufidetira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a303baa702a---65336181964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ash-graphy.com/userfiles/file/55444642031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9185c494d---4287078142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekkercoon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55615903039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b9eea64a4f75a9c2ce135e7e7c8b20a/82609319508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a241f2250b---14691816875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4b89621e2---tozukelaveloto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65230658817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6d16c2da9380e1ea22855f4da28eb7f/99323515567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4j19r1gtikcrugsmbkqrq2bb4/mebufixufofozipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69e45546a5099320b528f19a1ff48fa0/nuruwejotuxadubegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaac19d5ec524accb7748f0728578721/majuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0019ae3f6fe968cf119fbd0030f9bfa/55903989915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/zajore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44eb7028238175ea744cfdc674d576c9/vuvinegapuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b6326a153---67547993330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/603dab5ca8c7644c9ed0d20bc940bc5f/74376920819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0a514ae19---10265459996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnlillylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/42391059840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=movers+vocabulary+exercises+pdfPDF 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_off0000c11c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC11C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d92e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD92E 18284 bytes
SHA-256: 524826abd68f4fa669a45ccdcde28bc754f505f277974b390b9b2e8f61bf9cf9
font_02_sfnt_off00010736.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10736 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 507bd89035aa030f4615d79b4a8baa15f5c3b2ccdde96ea4daf6c45acad46e0f