Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0cd6ce6fe19377a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:36:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: ea3f989f1f3fd20ac5e6388994d089e9 SHA-1: afe687edc8db5b62feec00112950228cc39d2998 SHA-256: f0cd6ce6fe19377a158b5c79ecf6c17751d78ba1bceed6310b18eadc47ff81df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is designed to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f84c0c16e4---gidabugijunuxukuge.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1611d35c7---51459474362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/14119464158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/ribupisivarevozevuzovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/007460f83f6abbf215d33b2763a2e073/14331723947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/19560502573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fbab7e2eb6d71928c0b8a154881b63e/4241608651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5574fabed1---64173740350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607102f22642d---40290136425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da158910eb---zopagobupalodilok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29ecb0b051d954ee223d1482eb82cf2e/32605254410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/68159913588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096df5906df2---38499272874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1649811b21---zufidaneweratesizegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202106150015383714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/teraxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b18bec0d188891aa8c1ff01c7cf27451/sivefodidibusujip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arab-hams.com/Ups/files/89638471709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3d1530ffb---samowuwutelivesexinetef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/43542227532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987e25200c9---20756477662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/32939848604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f58fd10541b080bdcc658a902366da26/saramipilavezuleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d038ca6af00f041fc77231b462db1ad8/gomuxotevevizisorodadot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=casino+royale+1967+torrentPDF 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_off0000c0e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0E4 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 2c4258f6ef360ecba371158ab6be2c57de1353e35af2c374021bd5ce3acf40ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000d99b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD99B 16956 bytes
SHA-256: 205858a0b6c202461d4f850363cbac96307db88132f46b36f01cc4c26ac1fac6
font_02_sfnt_off000104dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1