Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 113972f534230d80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 08:50:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: e3f8e5acab338c85bbf4cd8c2ef051e6 SHA-1: e37a5aaa6e02ec38b4e89ee4260994062314ee4f SHA-256: 113972f534230d80d910249644a18ec634807cce2c2cb5d812b940a1311ed711
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS links points to a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+thing+speaks+for+itself PDF link annotation
    • https://eprobatdz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14931641495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e359efd15936a7721128f7f79be8abf2/31499698946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/45739881390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/88363295057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/lamuzudidoborex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb94878d2f---zajowelegub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6022adecb4---kekuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe9c16e88f---73756568694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7caec9023d512be3cd3991c1a7c9f771/momomajozura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/guwawuzewamevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9f0f66673---bubuzuvatikepilugewewipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c574c78f65d4eb671cea0d39915af02e/vakivegakiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eqjve3l73rml8c74bjc4is1o6/rofuxisinukogetowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimayphat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojimebosaxelegodado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3678126b91---75747181349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a8d39ac8e---31038594050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e59fdd8c63---10079232546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/18195351110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springbook.no/files/64988786232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cbe942271b---37015521270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/vuvijitel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2e44f92247858047ce33444a20a0fc4/22788618403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/1622888566tamelawajanasani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pr1qpg404aefl5q7gnomhidug6/35456008534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795aed7f272---bowedafegeve.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_off0000fd49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD49 17196 bytes
SHA-256: 5d7a6b5645fb569c541773ca2d78c317adbb099669a681a225bd76397946c69d
font_01_sfnt_off000129ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000141c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141C4 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 9c2cc077d2cb989e0230222b642219b22cef13cd146d0029fbcfb15b4c9f3bdf