Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd8aca75f1faeec4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 06:53:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 03166b1abe24a6d5cbf26a0ec7a5aa08 SHA-1: 852b266df3f608f91b1463e5a16d998bf51e0de2 SHA-256: fd8aca75f1faeec4d9685cb39357165491950bcce4b9524bf193410c813f1c3d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates a potential phishing or tech-support scam pretext. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2419874b50---37093443219.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3898088798---jegegiwufitoxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/75881971116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a5productions.com/home/a5pro/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97067208545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fed84da96a---72513245144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/88622069877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/97981393309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbbswalkforkids.com/clients/c/cf/cf8d0549bdc9bbdffca8bc0db9808b96/File/luzifulafete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01de6c58fa43a9773c07038860f0073d/75608585084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/52088132498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.net/images/userfiles/file/11640603206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tba0s8m3ghtimcsqjl090fkll/32235642868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/52734946840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3dc57e2c53---lowozatusarapikobiresanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c04db21b912---96340817329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xistenze.com/files/files/xefokirabapekibusupefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/rijuzotovera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/gifatoxifipinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089099453246---kudavisivejarupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b299ca18d---gaxozaxuzuvunawagixujukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmachine.ru/d/files/48346764391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdda935ddf2---xipunefagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///zaragotomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701e15ebe33---55631044639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=sniffing+and+spoofingPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE758 16860 bytes
SHA-256: ca3c4da0bb2bd188aed5e9a317593a417f4f331fae3cfb9fd1b09ee1cd19138a
font_01_sfnt_off000112f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012aff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AFF 7492 bytes
SHA-256: eb58b3490409f3915075759ee2892627b2e11b21cd2b63270ee3b637f7279dc2
font_03_sfnt_off00014454.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14454 10372 bytes
SHA-256: fc0479e41070c309bc61c0c7274d4b549a9f3f92f91f3fc8c7b86a1f1a98bd8f