Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0f16e1ab965d551…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 19:45:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 1884bd9634971a9c34bf2fe86e3eef30 SHA-1: 7ec1f13f79b7373cf950460069b338267d12ae42 SHA-256: e0f16e1ab965d551c6e2e5732f2912d95778f4cd48939b0f7b8f6ded6c3d62e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable binary data, but the heuristic firings and URLs are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e8e832ee9.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p4taqgrjmo31ken86kgpt329ns/3560022442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b7aa38ccd---gupodugudojubugexewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/75025143365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/587d1d79d1bda13ccb1f961564c9a7d5/5704135916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795d8b634e5---jejirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58a27a8055---vipipukizen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f90581af1---mupariguvemifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609861c67b28f---dawiwigatixozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/gowimibimelem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fbba1e60c---81102194676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c27bb17a11---jelodisiranositevepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b8f5e6856---37308321498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/magawimiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/36137587685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/68771502586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mclarenquartz.in/ci/userfiles/files/87786797301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/colch3jfa7usjqo1l2tsggbf05/tabisakudinasuwafato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a0e3156d09b0cea21ff893dfe67b27c/91261956522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83ea481087f5aa40bb88c8512808f485/75841825087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ba1cb1719---61411073557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/1814895556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpmbdf01745dsa3fukco747ga1/13733244823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotledlight.com/userfiles/file///27838442499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/67279914948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=pugilistic+in+a+sentencePDF 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_off0000eb31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB31 10284 bytes
SHA-256: d4215412d5122752670f6ae444c6aad7332c5aa622dbfb0b29cd1d2a3e1bdda6
font_01_sfnt_off00010274.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10274 18852 bytes
SHA-256: e715b20bef9bcf400c812d3bd51a22cf7c2239b1733f65de666e6ae2d4b083f9
font_02_sfnt_off000134b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1