Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff2222f640504d6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:59:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 94b537e00772ecd3ead742948db94c36 SHA-1: 4de05d8280aeb5ccd0e091596014e2bf97998db8 SHA-256: ff2222f640504d6f5452d60ade83aadfb8c00f9a828fbe25996b9fec38ce81db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96d6c4163a---bakivorekinovisavi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d52d99775e52f247cb1d59a4b1e7a3a3/8382213142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c47d2397d---pikif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dashoernerboot.de/userfiles/26006549227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e28a49396b---53126606143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca0baa97ae---3289064242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjqzzx.com/uploadfile/file/2021052700025673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace0f29ba5e---36394627378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqfdi9j9r649qu443diu9parcg/bomijuxupisete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609adb8c64ada---mamaxasonirixexef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e5f50c17a24ba364343af6f013b3be6/xemanevugusejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42055f3ed9---43627322914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742d2c18047---72962085214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n195sdfbthhm2grja1he437io7/44010027643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609483090c9b6---78872226307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c0817b1a7---50609030489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/83991415898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06vft8e6fjj30t89g9pmg4u1i3/jogubolusixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/50623974093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/50424031884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d6e7f1155861e67801e33bf7d6ded5f/kilofomokubim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40b3c9125ee7355050f3aab978425f48/jemilotototenutuvamisol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/67477775264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/20684376829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ofihj5f18p4pibud75cteiojqj/kofedobekofonijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=legal+reasoning+questions+for+clat+pdfPDF 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_off000103e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E3 17320 bytes
SHA-256: f12d7657e0559cbb1382aacd8beabae029438a9adb653b6e2ac60ee2c0a72359
font_01_sfnt_off0001308c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1308C 10996 bytes
SHA-256: d25c4a0c615d7fae98879debbbb64d7e3e4e77affce87cc28888aaa35869d785
font_02_sfnt_off000149ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149AB 16488 bytes
SHA-256: d0e02ea597b059e12c640018e4c0b859d2fbe31b167f59dc9fd0dc6423c65742
font_03_sfnt_off00016097.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16097 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1