Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b501a1dfc3d02ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 00:28:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: f59bf9e0a7ecf372cd37847a8266f17e SHA-1: a0228766ec63b0f3cc515e05ad6db7843d5d4c00 SHA-256: 0b501a1dfc3d02ba557a059fefe83934be0426c5ff0c4ff986605ad714a7a35c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS uploads strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=third+amendment+to+the+constitution PDF link annotation
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d9dd9cf60---suvelabijotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908fe63d1a5---nevuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ccd40e4ff5---98251050274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1df3f02d6c18d90980444297dadde0b/19933833760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/53681197804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865a763fab3---pawanoroxakofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/86458383982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d479120a3---bemotagas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b7c55f6e7bac93f3e1857bc2fdd6976/73495759108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b25a1f8a2441017897c469b3b0050f79/82719366476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a8a2a2fbe9e704787077c9486980b6a/towakamidazepazikodukifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pi9qubvcfdg8h65055l8qcn3l0/49274469339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogable.de/userfiles/file/41647434251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ec5d15ccda8854cfbaa536db6cd5bde/biwinixobajekeduserufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ec4f418a5---mofobogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821e0ba7853---18247471588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/giweropimojiwiduxisor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/rozopavalosetinatipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90kv987def427hi5fn1thb7d59/xixob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48152978ba---xitibesedomiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/4051265633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ec7f08c42---7406226081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.net/images/userfiles/file/gutuxotevaxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1240aa493a12455b814f2af896e0685/tovixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202162745412936.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_off0000f65f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF65F 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 4ab05dbe93a379a068fff96dbe65be4130cde2058d9895aa151d93cdc06297ed
font_01_sfnt_off00012311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12311 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B28 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 7fb22aec550155d79200a12371d6c842d2dbf8ba3d6ed5539280708d20d5d5c5