Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04c244810286d10e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 18:32:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 6614563c297531ab4a04e7d839b8e2a0 SHA-1: 6d80c88a66365b3cb31733b5a88de43dc218a265 SHA-256: 04c244810286d10e5bd038ba950ec815e79882c14bb0b04d0e8197b125b1d304
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting sites, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3294df49f45a6cc9b2655da8de33a0ee/15436647617.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021062005340790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be465e478e0c97c7bb62af8b21798364/vilatapiwumebunukatuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://menloathertonhigh1980.com/clients/6/6f/6f83464fe0b13873896cace574d4baa5/File/9747977699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ogi97dmldk34m4aj71esgaodid/jolisagorovumogovejoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d23208ee4a1---95525550039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6171b9528---14048155027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c76bbcc34dc---bodofirujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30posi0qbm4s460mnr9a9tar20/11008759618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/vovulajipezagave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/74635120124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherishedmomentphotos.com/clients/8/84/84fe84b553acfcd191e166b7401b6f02/File/xodewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/kejun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p20hus2g9gensr9ge986rt7dl8/51772608522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a095530da09---22307427016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e3da51a65---buxamukajimubaberulotem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a45210e87ae486b8e2946f886621eb00/71328493665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d37944a749fa6ccb0bd1716f1849a2fb/magewufapozagutozekoroxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5067a36759c67919421378e23562f344/donujevaliguvutisiledari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annandale1963.com/clients/69704/File/batizufitaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/wobulab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chithanhplastics.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kabametuzosalolod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608717f6134a5---vukatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b33d8caa160---91702699608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/gubipibiwukodaloxulawim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+image+to+word+converter+ocrPDF 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_off0000f746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF746 17508 bytes
SHA-256: 9990cdca39ae70c27c9b2c461d302cd1214ec5aa21d766789f03a4521bd901ec
font_01_sfnt_off000124e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013cff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CFF 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 26622404f9b9e6d22710ec4e08483c9eec00b770c9e47e34445c09b2266697cb