Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a9d9f51cc5baac9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-10 01:32:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: c6f968df14ae58207cc5da6f0344c33f SHA-1: ed1e128918d24d29612848aecace05539255e02b SHA-256: 0a9d9f51cc5baac9982c09ec86df321b540e597bf14fa5d62ddb0342c615870b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware deployment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9765

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://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/tukijej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://biotop-zamosc.pl/userfiles/file/nofututijemamebapemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/nuxujigevapopudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b227547e3d170beef6ed425765d91da/89906602982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vpntraffic.com/upload/files/71974976966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfc45353097---tavobavixogapaguli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097e224b6bc7---pevesajinawodezojawexijom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4de3e72ca---8981345401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4o6s3d8qvhmcjh2sgv088l33am/zeletaxezazuxaliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60a4c256358fc85f34cb101b21ce5731/9425354680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ca0577076166ff207dcd6622a36625e/59941324656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f0223bbe16---63239931745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ec5b28a9c---fefufamoluwotamezeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768d3be0421---leguviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/zajozulawerejopifibizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elhjgmkobdsioehjo1ukd54l72/jupedukifatazoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/83495867491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983d8f1da97---18266364108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/92892290829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/xigesuwokimatozubawazat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1adf3035dd---wiwujujisaduwotakufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a519c559e---90475325047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/navafubepod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cedfb036de9c1d5e6b86ae84d7e5ef6a/58578481585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schooldistrictservices.com/clients/f/f6/f6ab1571d2cdf5e569af7b76e288b17c/File/87629042213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082405ccad2b---41104397445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=left+4+dead+2+minecraft+mod+downloadPDF 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_off0000eab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C6 1764 bytes
SHA-256: 3a385e4dd4bfbf4849f622134eeb41cd672e0e7ac1b4c2213eb6cb942943407e
font_02_sfnt_off00010b0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0C 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 2e1e430cce0177f924228e4b82ed98a48eb324670a30406709b95039dd3efbe7
font_03_sfnt_off000123c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C1 21504 bytes
SHA-256: 0d7b4d793d9d281854a6f666b096d33af48b0a721cffb5ec3e22f436ef7a176d