Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 121c732cc95aaab4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:35:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: bf47e8b7daa3a5fd5ce2259f261e4afa SHA-1: 3026c0f26f939702b484519b96dea66059361a72 SHA-256: 121c732cc95aaab4927205e23490019362934eb6d7dbe37d3bb292af22893f3b
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 phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure align with common techniques for luring users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9891

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+meaning+of+terrible PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab55544780---22585665166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc00b527b54---53917398934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inifd.london/uploads/file/99851007172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a86r97uha3s2c0ro93u8032nv8/31680972291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://market-oborudovanie.ru/upload/file/34303893051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ail8s09a1m0k0eh7gpvu00e5f6/1397704935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b3e12019e---tuvulon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3v1qpb7q2n8v7o9n5hhs1uvfm/58228710641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhcoaching.nl/userfiles/files/20146369651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/34806033608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce9ffc4959---79394488411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b87fb1c34---63432900480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents//files/65860224536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vh2evhhbao5g6cjols7ilfr2h2/44081673022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/narikaguworasud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/65836413917.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off0001a76f.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1A76F 26488 bytes
SHA-256: 9dd4639c725e273d088fa8f6e0dc8f9f11e41efa0bdac3e596948d387217ccb0
font_00_sfnt_off00010fbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FBE 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 11abe2ff5865bf9fa93886361a151e0648558b536caaeddf6a8f17a95ae378cb
font_01_sfnt_off000127ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127AC 32876 bytes
SHA-256: e5389a30285345923cccf2b329f6689420dc4f52669355346efe72626f5bafb2
font_02_sfnt_off000172a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x172A8 8596 bytes
SHA-256: c20ff62d56efcaddfa4309d20cece3263e08eba373702f2a233531e7e384282d
font_03_sfnt_off00018f5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18F5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1