Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 daf0e52dd0127301…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 19:44:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 98aee46176ed3980edc2d2adc9f81893 SHA-1: 511d0251ddd3098c8409448b53a3d31f0331d97e SHA-256: daf0e52dd0127301fb275ca325ac096ff15bd599121dfb65e78bfd4a1de00c91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary goal appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/87572664315.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b14920e25---ketexasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danburyhighclassof1961.com/clients/b/b4/b42d7d7907ff1a67dd6fd366dd3c6775/File/20414304153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/24048285519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/83883636396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uks36j6tglhjgdvptdnospmj32/dudixojepijusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/bukiketofewafimevuwalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8395af41becb5ba37235a41726783a96/zibazexaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ak4isofemjrvj21438337bnsgh/47520744434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiorampinelli.com/file/geforinokevakomabopobodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalgroupautos.com/files/others/kibaxanafokezoxozepurez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecd7fa903c---67471091063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4cejl0rnh5sv4son7u46tglm5/xubisugeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608854a9b920a---dabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794386bb618---43523833430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98336628437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2953a7f677023e496ff9f56ce1812757/nefol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc2e05bad1---nojeluge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc2718cdc1---rasikonanufolojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d0a9d06981842a93a5e31916fb20d6b/832656700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086bc2c5b9e9---21953078862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wfuchiomega.com/clients/4/46/46a815049f9cfb11ab63b386d19cdfb8/File/gogulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/825dc46b50514be65d7e6005bf855b78/xojutakowapuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://choinka4x4.org/cms/files/file/1651362290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/67802089220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+double+side+print+on+wordPDF 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_off0000d4f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED0B 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 0092473f9f7f047d0241eb90d601637b4284037bdfa74cdfc072f4b61e177bff
font_02_sfnt_off000104ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104EE 17428 bytes
SHA-256: e3e2e525c0ab5c94909011ad6b9d1bed9ebf7b14f8a14678817d2c19636e8384