Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e925bc66ac025f4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 04:03:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 4483386bb2d52eda40473ab092209178 SHA-1: 56cd9c22f989060bd608688e5df1dd883624b060 SHA-256: e925bc66ac025f4e8f7fb97d2be64100113b02663d3c81b6827f206359e0a17d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, not containing user-readable content, further supporting a non-legitimate purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823b9d68a50---zalabidozukiwutuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce77ed6124---nilizirarodemizinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021060319455373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf4b4466169---kegamijipuwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f077a4d1a6---9834975937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a00c778b732f322c0718a84e514dbd85/wikixabewotavazozodowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759256661c7---13783360202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://room12shio4.com/contents//files/moxupizobadekuduridos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ad1eaffd5---88102833005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/47547076333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/72813215929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/568d96f39634c22660c6189dbaaf43ac/govizewebesolexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22ae7ffcd7e775424e06db709414f21e/fomat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e783423cd---jusafopanolagujurile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/kisolozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/bilaxitoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/karosidutowol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nv9ujtglej7lmnf1uscm72tj1/92154628357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46609bd2c579d757fce66ced76b4b133/lepetuzogizogowokagim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/raxutabupuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/689f95c5772ce17a03d2e8e8acf4defb/81253315391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciattella.net/images/file/bobote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=uml2+and+the+unified+process+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_off0000f228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF228 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A3A 17040 bytes
SHA-256: 8ad9ff5f7ce64f2195f03bb2e7c962ca8fe4b6141b3d100e7f614047eb82e97c
font_02_sfnt_off00013674.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13674 11112 bytes
SHA-256: be920725f080723450bbdc45c9a0a60b4246ad5295b835e95a893f016f801c56