Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 179f5e3484993812…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 10:54:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 4171a26305a1879ee46a822463d98ae6 SHA-1: ef77188ed2b52cb5897ed24540b2ce478a83329f SHA-256: 179f5e3484993812fcbbd463df609acd8fd41a108e961e6b4d8f95aa598c34dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+silver+box+by+john+galsworthy PDF link annotation
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afabf626d162966d4c0bc4507d71fe6f/1195837934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ad032b1e2---wizifelijibokosezepowavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbsd5pu1jqp9lcdb6fhjlvk720/96190190180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schilderlesvakantie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97364166548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b05b95c3a---5597123107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609447e02e544---xudexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ca6faf30e---pipenenageda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/8333675743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/bororafifadovijirekinoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6290462e5d937c555ee7c1d798cc358b/95046504744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cc2779a96---1438428436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b91163e6be---49720458928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf10f14e95---93906685006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/26698358323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762d9fe0212---dazafimapas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9j5md8g5p5n87esfc1i1js47bf/58560582674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40720bc21f69ff9779993351c7e97699/93781452269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e90d740d415924677086f2316fac3827/42291121274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tj3prt2cbs2vdkqp9o2auj1cj5/jebidawovibipilalik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/53670881085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cab5a530a66dc956217ed8e03237f4f/difogufew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202104/file/66517569577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53495f330b314c1910b54ada31c634a7/78434860187.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_off0000e75e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE75E 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 9d7e0c383a7d2368777362d972a2d53123db96552bc6a547a82366607d6fc4f8
font_01_sfnt_off00011352.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11352 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 6ce8104b72981c88e92271072110f12bb18d14bd4787b31f3e2849d1afb1c507
font_02_sfnt_off00012ce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1