Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef60dec3fe00a0bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 21:18:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: b28e1a5ef3f4e47edcf5cb131b0d489b SHA-1: deeb771018a1f9f28df9fb79014a0428e90406f8 SHA-256: ef60dec3fe00a0bf7bd3b15eac72f196c77b33331d7c98a3f71a8341bf4bec34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9926

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+long+scar+smashed+into+the+jungle PDF link annotation
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/37816129958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740b84dd7f9---naweralowuwikazukoruvinen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b7f874bb602a09bfdb95848e5e034b0/tabafonevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4gqe1feuqie23b4ftjml7ik8h6/75471735295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b741e76ea076737e8caef2b938498cdd/19829155273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/66393611684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/3682169958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89ea383b15---40392525156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/jefivebukaraganap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e579713f0---fetifazolenixatokudolofud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/17188713968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12f099bad9e70082bf21c72735b6be99/supufijasogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raiporjai.com/piceditor/file/rofebobonerivamota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb70fda0f3b664cc473ca91ff83e80a0/xibesubitugumupesoxikeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdb18f3cef---14505797637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/19615751567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/pubowuwesakedadulifigevaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c757e323f---86341436330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95d32b79889eedf5d7d7542af236a4cd/jatexanide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17971f9a175e1d3064ba36aa326428fe/kukogizedilalom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e399b226f1---19741343213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7abb47231---95440678133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/derekujiluveni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mqhpks7nvnauctub6jngasckco/jisobomawuboxirobufuzog.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_off00012ff2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FF2 16716 bytes
SHA-256: 4e9ac82f357bfcf1075e13ba5c113c8cd67bf678cb19a7d377b22959962f1fd6
font_01_sfnt_off00015b13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001732a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1732A 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 6d064bf5db3523e3a41f69c9588f41e7dad9eab72d35d16485ef66ce66fd8ffd