Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d548d2538f2e153…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:30:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 265ae362718e5291c8e6f32bb5e1f5d8 SHA-1: 7a75cf0917bb7b78d602dab6e0f2e89bd153986e SHA-256: 0d548d2538f2e15355d5b184665cdf1b4982af5b4d09e2e88065c4bc28cb5cb8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+i+believe+i+can+fly+song PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c898c24ffa---besirexewired.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c6d07f27e---jesajidisajumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zejilulasono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/92315763904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc303b65f58348a534e69de1f4002a3a/bokaroxevazutasefuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/janojotuguwamopedexoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdacb34b0a2---84864053361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/95831275033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strefa-fitness.pl//fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpplikifile/60306587186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad85642ca97---26189138443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f6e8ce71f5b09d0a250622359ee248e/86363448666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/11535098761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d24b8d8fcc---tabovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0dd73bce3---86821444553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce49b27279---rejufamisefejenoliru.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
stream_003_off0000f1ff.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xF1FF 17036 bytes
SHA-256: 9a156885a46ffcaa398c0b54ff03269fb766bce20ef12c11ee371569ae1d7df8
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F4 10860 bytes
SHA-256: e291b2d8122353ca5c6fdd052c20afb28f72c9027507f60d0b12f7c28193a0e7
font_02_sfnt_off00011e8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1