Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eef40137e6788d66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-28 01:19:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: ad825468a5191db13a87558ca102d5b1 SHA-1: 4efa489fd3c5c095289f8f192779ece36a56c03c SHA-256: eef40137e6788d66a1b35b5abe408b3f3291eaef20a2545fdf3945c09977a20f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with multiple heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. The document contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing attempts. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9896

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://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dr5m4vcvfmcgtsd6fmokpcbeqm/395244681.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f836f9391dce24158967ca4f6a776f85/gusutugafofomowalaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kih6alo4la8503vh27qo3l9g3k/14789918528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/poviwatasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabd5acbfe8---29086237304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59a735e9ed9e93a8a4f0a3e1da717d49/55596420330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventss.ru/userfiles/files/rijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simondaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vejirijifarebifoxusiwuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607497e3c1f4e---24199942478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rafaellucenaehijos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lofolatufetufamaziwiximes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097beb8024bd---80558242108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodabo.eu/userfiles/files/wuxuvanajekuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d63ee1b7c---vasolabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/xenajubinavajosesigekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b48b34329d---29110183616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypdtools.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/86539276609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/tunore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consurs.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39661384672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn68.com/clients/75339/File/44327742307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0af185ed49ac7d59c7c5b01efea8efb3/47161896572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5057e236ae48f6e5868c40a3bd2fbb9/28330441011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazuma.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35830124141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhquoc.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gujedixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814a8230cc1---54391643464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santchavarabed.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoleni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profil-metall.de/content/uploads/file/pamonarusavoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/divunevipidipikujiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+substitution+property+of+equality+in+geometryPDF 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_off0000ea26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA26 11296 bytes
SHA-256: fd16a6f5f87a1d2fe9a3de191c2d3c42889eb5489edbd88c3c6fc9d58dd1a2f9
font_01_sfnt_off000103ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C11 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 32f0ab8e33895715fc7bb51fc33934f9bb1c0e4bcb5f396ab522b32445804bfb