Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eca0b3832ede4716…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:59:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: b5f89dd2a1d1391a520e752b18bc076c SHA-1: 417750bd629b530ce97b7171c3fecd61f31c2809 SHA-256: eca0b3832ede4716f04d37162b270f95e3ec488c0daf6382b66aab5c4101062c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebe092e2f5---zivelowar.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j09tq9qp50m24beoatd4c4ltoh/25384879604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/vagawidexujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/796e3284a391add6aa4583ab130c94ba/69025081189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8031435df723996847bba5e8ffdd113e/18035084554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/betajonekirogujosetadunaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096432b7afb0---mejaxele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/pamiwatotuvodele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a594661600d---69899110756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/2747909908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa9597d2a6---nobubuxunixosewulifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8906fade97ae4a3b5bde02e50320bf27/jexugowolifijinixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976b9129a2c---wevovamubiboli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qv4ts19qi8l7plsqc4rkkok0tf/jijoweweme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607351bbd8904---golazefukotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/83380171788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/mujakaligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7681e98b5---42510397440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kgdkkj7j5pp333n64gjgl2cg02/kojerusakag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091252580f41---sukozafapogeniti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077626b229a6---muwamilojevigor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083584a4d0eb---33280977157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revtechnik.cz/userfiles/file/22581338760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/917f7d4801902a43650396ee7fab6bab/1677486210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=jack+and+jill+went+up+the+hill+meaningPDF 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_off0000f551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF551 17748 bytes
SHA-256: 2b51098014af20892f69337256ab377fc5de10633036650e1bcfbade74f36a92
font_01_sfnt_off0001238e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1238E 10972 bytes
SHA-256: fff1d85e532c3f460f27e8193d8c4577092d48d4cc1339774ec5dfa90d3e9a2e
font_02_sfnt_off00013cac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1