Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0574515d760ec73e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 23:37:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 29ef2a517f58f5f137865a32c168c4b4 SHA-1: 17831bea27d13616d2b71bced2140d9c95b4a18c SHA-256: 0574515d760ec73efe34d0131a9d2e8b63de8ddef7cf6a1d1280279d35d68869
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on compromised websites and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings point to a malicious link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/gexev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9b762b70d275709a0c66c1db5ae07e8/pefubidudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9e960af11---16271152015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9942352a9d---69265273071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/pugenudiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfh2.com/clients/d/d2/d2a7b52150a7a947468b52e9b7560e3c/File/karenunukigoniwomokajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/176d18b703444fdd1a9a9bb606956a4d/85244362073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7abc3aa37b0d6182151408537e9ef3ab/52782405496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/vaguresojusasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d124bc4d5ba6bd00981c2be4f511f972/94916816210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/lolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ade5539b12---zagefinozof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2da435da7f---wenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b2f2750cb---30269108590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://physiotherapy-warwickshire.com/user_file/file/muboxifewuvolewitaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ed3c72cbb---vabufaduxuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6f25c3ccc---84071489511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607542c50e329---92305210972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24b16300e6953111152167a2a14e66a9/55767306878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merlegdoktor.hu/tmp/43043229722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7ebb6f04d23a29ed9f670b53708daba/potidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucity68.com/clients/e/ea/ea220da86df44fb0ae3b7c8e8295ccc1/File/99493405252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transinfosoft.com/userfiles/file/34863241890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=thinking+through+the+literature+answersPDF 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_off0000fcc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC5 16968 bytes
SHA-256: 1a11886895abc23ce474f439ef215301d1c8a83defe9f11c21ae8956d4ff55c3
font_01_sfnt_off00012867.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12867 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001407e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1407E 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 1f2f6d8a63d6165eadf4fa68cf09b81eaf124152cb9573957ae2f2c00931c6fb