Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da140df9f8babba2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 06:29:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 28e72258962a4cf40098f3c23cd82870 SHA-1: 2832019d0d61594982f13d4fa5ecec5e69986314 SHA-256: da140df9f8babba29dacf6cd3935af9dd95b65efc08167ca55d87b790e178343
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The file is a PDF that exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple distinct hosts hosting similar PDF files suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090aa4998971---33817584578.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gija0jhcu27mbskt1s2druuba3/76834697583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be612ffdbcd1a84d0232e16c0b9a5ad8/nilolepokoluzero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45a691f6e7---82698245861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2e65c2c12---36494991467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa868f17ae---xuwido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3de4a24271462202efdc9cb0f11c6cd/pufaxaniwurufokimekemevof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10645798612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf0e41421c---2379723047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f622db2df2---boworejokulilidoleru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/317f464d58dda07ed9a7346baacdea04/90704272683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nashcentralfalcon.com/clients/d/d5/d5bea9c86035def548a020f7371d19fe/File/kabikujizoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyiat.com/html_upload/file/74884413044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecresconsolidamentorestauro.it/fck_data/file/roxofawazekizipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fb12f8f8620ddb51b10f8f45f605764/34946600416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bn6k5i8augb60th79ejbbgd8n/88836179878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///xijaloporiguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753d8641440---busodobarenisanenuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/pasirijoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/64728469031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607975eb84fed---gadomawexilajutejos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f3ac6d2905f8a6340286963c0bfc3ad/wajuponowemotebeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69b17b970e86fbea56f1c1e0832ba236/badikijunizeposevega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/doganivapidakolopijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=tom+stoppard+new+playPDF 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_off0000eea0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106B7 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 74c8e46f42444e031e82e8439e4c33d53cd1effb484bd25a31a2e26b03795dfd
font_02_sfnt_off00011f1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F1B 17704 bytes
SHA-256: 8db97412d03d5719ef42849e7b61c34647dcbdb58cde2476980a93072af1bef4