Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 153e0848b72f5819…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 07:20:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 4c0e5823d8139a1233fd8b1a2ffa2415 SHA-1: 492b6c6c9452bb21dfb976f337f95bf8f3226d52 SHA-256: 153e0848b72f58191a176db8e2eaa567af0aa3cd5cfb2ffacacfe7e075f60c56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to exploit users through a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vancouver+to+banff+national+park PDF link annotation
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/mutumabujuxudeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31423172c406350f97128cb6c117793a/nujurefikukeweke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5419e55224---sufofepifujobobijegon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94ad867de2---83077888108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43cb88fda3a647da0854b5a8b55c4a72/61420141055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d45c8443447fc196643005489b4a2993/37714359260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5f4a9f80e97f9927bb7b4e39cd35267/38527222468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacionalequipamentos.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/3868211752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a13170a3ec4---luluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tl7tg34p06i40s6bmicn8upsqu/34465948434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2cd76e12ab---74900850436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ec401516c4dc2c63159b92a5b12eb82/70027508590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solee56.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pifavafagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/niwaxifajokad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d25673e728---97313398683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d56bc1d66a---zejitatigerotegej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609133c98cce2---86411965479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57548175e1---92155604536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/68916440722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivaco.it/file/lotesogedugapogosagidiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609044f792f68---valobonuzifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfb002546613201e306738d706bc2248/lirokuruge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac72c55dea6---8529301315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcc09d52c5---73203603820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/xenuzedalesof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/zominebe.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_off0000fc6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC6B 17076 bytes
SHA-256: 9af6e25aa7c35685ac02f60ea4696b3634ded39df51e883c0e4fb1f3c61b840c
font_01_sfnt_off000128cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128CB 10672 bytes
SHA-256: fdddccd41ee35dd9d37d0cc16b0edfe0aa01ef784075d27b53aa6695dd96d01a
font_02_sfnt_off0001412d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1412D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1