Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffa9d800b20a3aab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-07-07 08:13:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 4c71f690553de3cb2944f171bcb40b7b SHA-1: f53827c587a42912fea1e889df7e3fc208bda21a SHA-256: ffa9d800b20a3aab4d4828a5d7ec2517e11c45432ea39507755a7ef982c249e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of external URIs imply an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=taylor+swift+august+guitar+chords PDF link annotation
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/zajamaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/reduzapopagoloxavoruweju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/16170704439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/99110877823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088fc0b8aab9---runijadatafidelogude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c55799086f261d86018699d05d77e45e/tuvebuledegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/fupinanenivozolizosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-6/20210506120459290319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nnf430stpgt1urtmk9mgakeaut/61577230630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/71529339973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9edd1761a---pujun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecreator.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovipupajafarifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncunse.com/d/files/febafeteveta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a517de76c26---65262388509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usarsenal.it/userfiles/files/14086741947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nb5d9eagrijhip1nq90urnam63/wixab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4ad5a6a73---bawemelelolexapanife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab13d150cf2---faxenizejisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084897eac3df---tegepikavilufog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jdhs77.com/clients/58520/File/tenodegirulokofox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608979be0c513---87671400322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6hbu9c0rgfb970cm6h7vhb1jrm/tovan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be06a2bc1567e4b2b75eab2a095ec071/memikatitiwigafubap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021052020252973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011dfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001360f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1360F 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 1ebb9508433a8854cd65037cb789d18a6efea1f116b4378aaf0c476b1b06fe0e
font_02_sfnt_off00016199.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16199 10784 bytes
SHA-256: b02fba10575f39ca80fbaa18ef2e55f394137d031968a3d07203cc160f0b3b0c