Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eec8f32bba0eea4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 17:05:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: ee32c409fef49ba87e48f604c102a1e5 SHA-1: 0c524229b1937435137c3549a6c39ebc84efa0cf SHA-256: eec8f32bba0eea4e2ec529d3d3925eddc9d53ae7afeabf03870a2604da514604
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or other suspicious domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/sodawaganemof.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdd5144d5dd7c89b349ae6e0c6bbaf75/pajevokefetamepuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c4a4fcf1e4fe57e2d70e4bf755d1c51/28335831644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fscdnjf0pmb5di933qhmbr9qd2/zedufoguvenofibuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phpirateboosters.com/clients/867602/File/61560781176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/62203744888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookmyweddingup.net/clients/73542/File/95351552230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getracemirates.com/userfiles/files/10620871785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/99192537017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/94443725207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a897a835d4d---kixonilatawomomomenimuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d0a90c320da2c9ed337e75e6ef8d87f/87318201963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160950e646b288---19627355114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a38b86bd5cfd215aefb94e540a699d06/56022333557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b177023aef9fb686b0fe23ca63e4c990/zedelenoriteserexarakowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/huvtd6k8rtqm5kg0jli42q9mai/boremegadedixijepiretik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/nimimebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carsongrad75.com/clients/3/35/35717660c32d3dd9b0ffde8f33a19d23/File/42975531049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=who+is+the+protagonist+in+romeo+and+julietPDF 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_off0000e577.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE577 16436 bytes
SHA-256: 5378384fee5b191030c990c98cd9be5358c0ea96cf08d5e16de2b9c02a16a540
font_01_sfnt_off00010ffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012812.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12812 11060 bytes
SHA-256: a9437e88dfdf39973935b0f14aca9def5caea064ceefb9d929c9bfb0fe88e75b