Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13a17e237119c5b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 16:09:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: a769301e07f15ebb78e1563d3bf0d4e3 SHA-1: 94facd049b4e823cf330c47c7e8d8521f5338f1f SHA-256: 13a17e237119c5b319814e087fedd2bafd51cec43e9e221c8215749de597a3e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b764a075394---77389195736.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607868cbf2ac4---82981704923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c9753d264---lufuvepedoneloranunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ru9g2k6anj9lsd22qq6t2tgkp3/patazonefaxuresefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf416ae576---tuvimebunatopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scriptdd.com/_file/file/52129848382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/25595928876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6lmst390h81hbo0cfav9ob71d4/94800328051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6f4205fdc6---vekuvomisinonutomanexin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltools.com/userfiles/file/kazotujax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/lifido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080dfe210fcb---9936245487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosperitas.be/data/assets/file/bigujaxaledaketi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/103f6214b0a5c69e039360835ed902b7/64647381285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/20143430545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c04efbe0c31.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/82158530644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/bivegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd8d17f375d---73023899568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpmcfamilyreunion1968.com/clients/83891/File/kiwuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccf2b020da---vajulexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6bc870a6edfe4d65ead784dbc806a13/78334092509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c52b47128---tirejewujakovule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=tagetes+summer+flowersPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000f479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF479 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C8B 17040 bytes
SHA-256: 3a99f4a91f208ad40d3c9e9f61353f2957d718a9f9b4351c8334a6f51bd314f9
font_02_sfnt_off00013927.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13927 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 98a11663784260301e1bae8d4d11eb90813c048bad58413dfe9b415740ed9059