Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15cb7398f195848b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:16:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 5339aaa62b12d6d566ab24f497fc16e4 SHA-1: fd26b49bb9c7883b993cccc6c0b93e918807f595 SHA-256: 15cb7398f195848b95643c0a9420ac302360e9b03b62c0c654b11a671e65dd96
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and IP literal links further supports its role in directing users to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/reoanhfvnjmpehd74jhgluvgpf/53622852208.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35049f60a23dd699d8b7803d9fe2a7e7/73246485790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/sufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1bd9fe8a06---93461145588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608281d53b0d9---65525202275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/22094845759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f38b882ca2---mudiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyn-koe70.de/obrazky/file/54460317312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/gujevawudukegoluga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instandee.com/Images_upload/files/xogoxenepuvexizafatomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63e7746e25---gulofima.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98926626e7---28302750017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb508d7831---rarafakabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsalumniauditorium.org/clients/f/fa/fa32e32112b7cad64a7d7e78b95ed61b/File/vilekomuxenaruru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/29864452977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/7813798351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bfca79156a---63966368023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76f237a3812b15c2babea6ee09fdbb71/nofiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68b88328664cb697bc94797592f01f34/sikotabej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/kibalojebose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/67901584594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=0+factorial+is+equal+to+1PDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/365883467783e7fdbf4933fc1ddd8453/57881649953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7834dd1405e0acd09dd3451a929f194/wuwojalavawaka.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF245 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 325c5f5cda05429ae92d15c23118ca1b8712e485108c584e1e30b0ff615913b7
font_01_sfnt_off0001076d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1076D 18768 bytes
SHA-256: 045b86d0e9e7c1f4e328d1a9f496d1fb843fd12d0fab29708af9689a76b6dbea
font_02_sfnt_off00013965.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13965 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 77c6aec284df292323feaee141ad40b35a4d75ee4c631357d52e812e1e836439
font_03_sfnt_off0001519b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1519B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1