Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da1e03a8b2c56f60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:07:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: d2dd5876bbc0041308346f2c3ea81c67 SHA-1: 4d344468127c5178b4589c83b101d9736f4f8ecb SHA-256: da1e03a8b2c56f6041345606220739fda5245be7e74270d050e8df1188fe3475
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of formcraft/super-forms plugins indicate a coordinated effort to host malicious PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888759bdbe0---fegifuxisexadiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fed2974d2---luwaliwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa42e5a12b71a5d1cf8d2fa957d05f64/newosojelalorifuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c2af194cb187064f4d95f59832b7353/14244530507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pablohernandes.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bd4fd72eb8c327134b9f1c5dcd7b982/24720412926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd78fab8b33---risodiwabatugolinomeledok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9bc191f84---xipijarob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/95294629263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhongzg.com/d/files/lawolixomotalidadizeloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7b5ee10bd0117f72f2d9e2173f28cee/fomadep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/59075001012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8795183af8c996aeb2faf6bbe85e8132/20172962471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607894c2bd0a9---12410927805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2293o51s9p997ogfob3gcd959/21534694176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/kulen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b874678a7d8d2b6fb357c55580014148/makujidezekoderikiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47a835d18e---kijuwofiwonemipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/bitubanefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/nofabefaxunitusez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cdda602806---dubezupijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d122b54d3eeadae33f13eeccf487075c/52548773493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ecd17d924---sexatariwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b36cad708be---54433922595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/jitalubogeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/sodukigesumaduwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=after+the+dark+endingPDF 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_off00010202.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10202 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A14 17908 bytes
SHA-256: b8301990cd552cfaaef439f532133a94e94395b4205a564a8cfd01e52260c0a7
font_02_sfnt_off0001479a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1479A 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 18708329218605a7d8b9d9bb58a850030b866a2897629d9768fe57f2347c8873