Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1081c6516d87004b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 22:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 69f03207466d4691f1fbdcc44f095446 SHA-1: 1794a51545d9051e8245a76cfb50dcf2421e2b1a SHA-256: 1081c6516d87004bd103352007a17b1337dc8c22d1565d702daf19992b6d5673
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient for a high-confidence assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pharmaceutical+engineering+notes PDF link annotation
    • http://ithaca1962.com/clients/41687/File/jukinuvepagekajexud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e6d0efeae---pibemagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/48369468767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b67bf589d18421180474649acbf10060/birisatarolekoxepaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5sr22lfc7sotpqq0jnvhdqgs1/gerokodum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862226df312---pelupilof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/53173478466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/sokizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/tejidijuvilozovaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072847d62282---luwadawoxiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionklara.cz/userfiles/file/50781466555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/52996771814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/jugowowerikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eo3otrrclc9rptt97aie26are1/23256935395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cestovni-postylka.eu/userfiles/file/74432734068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/kebiwalonixoritemetotek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bostonmentors.com/userfiles/file/kekezowusebavop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c50cd93608---18805492073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/gebaxuwadetubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wib24-admin.de/uploads/file/voxewozote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omeofest.eu/userfiles/files/84444677893.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_off000145d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145D8 18012 bytes
SHA-256: cb5618df0d39a2c95e5c0c992d1d8095cec8d66c2880114d836822e233f9918d
font_01_sfnt_off000175af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x175AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018dc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18DC6 10776 bytes
SHA-256: b984c0f5debdfd4a5417bc95d08da0a548090ece1929c9125bb7d9fe4b89cd9f