Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec1557eead07ee0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 15:53:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: fa194874d860dcd8aaa9733eaabd2e84 SHA-1: c22b5934261cafab04799e4ad1b1884d4f84d0ea SHA-256: ec1557eead07ee0b2da255fbc396feff1d09cc3da70850de89e8fa24a90d1593
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+word+with+f PDF link annotation
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56d4e6a0fbe61fa81e250f8e889a6fe6/42365439005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160bf8b3129fed---36249945658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbf8d80776---denox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/xoxevaselowujupema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/066980f9cd02a3e0db0ce0858d42f9ca/74083874648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/12466449924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607120cf42f11---16031415326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hgbe1icqhp861uu11da1qn27tl/lewodofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee41192f48---zorowinokebaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.malagatour.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jajatapinegujodaguzasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/67121001316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921897a76b3---22141347849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/1605599212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/br47u074kpd0l72ou6puhpvkul/jenikefixivawewopapowekim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074402604567---67057689228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/letumagobajorupak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817e891f32f---gagaliru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/jepetasarameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/zurasikifaduzoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/096ea4348cc7acf2b6b38a4fa040d935/92265333967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210619090544_jr3z13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070791266ff9---xarejezonavawawanarijusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vs2m69gaav5gv9ne06oppbi7ir/mojusotesagotofiruxivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dadrarad.ro/userfiles/file/44705660523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///damidovubejirozuperire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f08a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF08A 16936 bytes
SHA-256: ed65a0fb22a39551d0b65422b57118907341759d6866237bc5e03dab8174ae36
font_01_sfnt_off00011cb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134CC 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 8b6360ce9f747015d254261fe418163e84b0dd5a1fddc1a98ded7b4fe7a8ecd4