Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffed93223296606e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:22:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: a43bab9c14cddc81b4fdf3e3404db277 SHA-1: 253a2be0e530cc908dce5092b2241f3297d1d548 SHA-256: ffed93223296606e944ff7be17ea2a2f8cf7759947b4ec20a4530c7b920e80ab
176 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 redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and heuristic firings are sufficient to infer a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c7efe8093a---segutimixebegem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7cdd57935---dabakigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d00060230aa---jafemekinevejuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a222b878458---13286259853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8a50549a3---damuvotevupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160977e68e23df---zufoxobapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/18027133063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehbl39h1i85cgbfc5c4q9vo15j/82830985867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160959fa4035f9---53313920365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnovum.hu/downloads/53685380174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0vote.com/ckfinder/files/91194537496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floraplant.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/25463873826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6dc16967eb---33528954442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/buwutibadobitiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhbachkhoa.info/upload/files/sajejixasakolojovafone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/5092913262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/25571272555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba90f5462fc---48473209217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/44943238235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773adbda63a---bipiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f35ed679fc---30225834383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/nomapinatigixipaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832b07678d2---buwegalafuxezigisiwegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c4559b8a9---60395353215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+fortnite+without+downloadingPDF 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_off00010136.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10136 17624 bytes
SHA-256: 8000e2ba4349915b762cd630a7a8d5bbfb412b4b4df4576327c0a628fa312fff
font_01_sfnt_off00012f99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F99 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 6b1847acf04253ad3f36b6ba9da587ca14001e0a5524b7f24e20844887f2f7b0
font_02_sfnt_off000147ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1