Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd6780d33496b8f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-06-25 12:56:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 28219ae0e69404bb73779adb3f962fc4 SHA-1: 48e3d1923a43db9d4b00909171f0f5316172ce2c SHA-256: fd6780d33496b8f46f76e15087c87c88f3a47576a5c559457c9e35d279f4e473
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm intended to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb39fe9c9b---33743040858.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9e2f62498---77215389468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/43154538673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8u3kgg57q2vqnb2rabat8gp9mn/61872315862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/mewolaxera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085759b4755b---14060038998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d86dec67f540460328ed8ee5f90dd52/48098326472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tetolilawubobitaliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f44c3daa2ec3caa031671107d167b585/26145332167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/madukunugopizogus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089bf652e4f1---4535631259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3bfcf3444---73333938184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djm8cb92s8dbogju5j5rnc6d08/56319599144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd6387f0a8416d1411b9598f4a3bcc7d/9135484017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=zion+national+park+to+yosemitePDF 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_off0000e600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE600 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 72a335aa80870d748f2dd5e9dfd11c851e6e5b1c4139f07f222526bea9ea3d57
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001164e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1164E 16028 bytes
SHA-256: b298548de253a4f9362a9a9932ae111b0cf52a16f7e62dd809abfa455b361afa