Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13fe9e9e4963b724…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:51:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: d38f4f30de7edb48ebed88ba77fb3485 SHA-1: bdaaea33f62a9cea6f6ea731ed309b44957b978f SHA-256: 13fe9e9e4963b724de45168dedb4a57d0cadcfb79f0ea4369ad660104cd4077e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the presence of many external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4417813f9cdc564583359492742c4663/99385481243.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9fdd40567d5705505776b80c89a7842/zeravutomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/091742334297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2c7a0f4222---weduvakuwawajorovok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cementfeet.com/userfiles/file/jojufine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfe0d5f40b7---32271293726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f463fb0d8cf82210368a37405253d3c/jifuvumajewokegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f0d1876ec5610cd27db32b77b5364e2/55231957393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/72230264181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/19686164879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a43d817281c7e33bd5071dddaabdbdea/tetalebebemami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-24/20210524000732332919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinieurope.ch/userfiles/files/91351620311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07a59ebb1ca3ee088657a8f874817102/23844539380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/64514446163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34c59498b276eeb168a0d2abdbf57e6f/nagugogirezojodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1f5ab19fe---18992188284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6j8617u4s3vaj16gd1fkm8g0l7/92090637020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n7h4o8np1iitvr9bf3m278kn04/50899184750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73e78688cfaee291401ce86d09a9110f/guxulugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/vunerudavasolavima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/favapaterexosofazinavero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+open+an+xbox+controller+without+a+screwdriverPDF 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_off0000e9fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FE 16644 bytes
SHA-256: f544b35b249b4afd707300c3a610296ced47e637a2f7490169cc6bc773d5f8b3
font_01_sfnt_off000114e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E0 11096 bytes
SHA-256: b2ab2cc50300e63a66250fa0a2ecb5c13748240c03bd8b861d91a031e986d7c3
font_02_sfnt_off00012e85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1