Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eacc19d5768503bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-06-20 09:27:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: ed8886d044e276303afd989a4a0478a0 SHA-1: 0408c36e6ed1330866185c28e83941121ba8c83a SHA-256: eacc19d5768503bba3bce2b45b27b6aebbac9d24dfe41bc2f7cd5444755e902d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, but no clear instructions or lures are discernible from the readable text.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uijb9rjtjtjlrs88io251lqekb/nemuwulobaret.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb7c36824d2---kejukotusofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44a3e1e05be6fd343b5d4346f16c8d4e/sizijapudugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/52436440224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c02db6556f5---mojipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7b0931414f6a51df7550d02309218c0/89465290221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/komilulibiwajakixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/tuwoweriril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b604097b4---35378543028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/19996044954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607dac9d6903d---93142651683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842ba633985---70241903810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74d204c2278d1ba0cd63bdf8cbb189b6/xamepijumekofifaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ue19eg9llcol22hcg92h68pt45/89639003801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/45592153031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mars+closest+to+earth+2020PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A2 5168 bytes
SHA-256: 48718a07e0b2c159bf9f61ef4901b4f630106595499f61c37d973284a2945238
font_01_sfnt_off00010233.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10233 11452 bytes
SHA-256: 14434f7c66d8b80001d740f0a1cbc18b361031eb3a1bac55a1f4931045e58781