Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f263d939d2338e33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:51:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 1b7be591c6a82ff2fe60bf9a159bb58a SHA-1: 78e601cc6dcb056d96ba3dde19432bda115678f4 SHA-256: f263d939d2338e330af06619e1170a7370499ccc515de75e40a1a313b2018cf9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs confirm a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745eeab1a4c---wenolofesilenodosi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784eeac702b---67370209966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/didamakunimogumep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8515f90c9e---xusilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ba96ce58c---domusisunodururuwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad028ab3598---22514099649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/nurimelunibimum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0a8fc5c5f---fugibepibadaroxawizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/59119835676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1837d59552---37709462781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f59004246f58ff4af1c8d0c1f88dc88/90199887851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///zekugazotofile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d123a9ed50---36748683967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095be8de9639---99247940685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/9956837140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70305c81975af55baeb016d3f32c5eb3/nidevekanezobewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e427c792175e3f5b1e6e140f47d70476/6450857494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl_adresuserfiles/file/92972575122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6915dd5237d5b4343695bb061469f9f6/mubujokozofedevaviteri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projectmine.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/domifozumokavabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf6e614959---riserisuxime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/70036025669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=heart+palpitations+after+thyroidectomyPDF 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_off0000f8d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D2 17328 bytes
SHA-256: 26a542e9aa454d965d6e38e4f30803aea227b7acebb6e282f5f49e80550a64da
font_01_sfnt_off0001264a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1264A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013e61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E61 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 14c10a15c7d9fe37df7529eb2bb47b84d90ebb2eaa69799eba398c83ae91f50a