Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18a52f159c7c690f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.0 KB Created: 2022-04-05 16:48:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-05-10
MD5: 43a594d95576d2725a2681d66d7f7f79 SHA-1: e02a5fac24edc7be973c424dbf3d4dcc1db060e2 SHA-256: 18a52f159c7c690f4d565b44705e2dc3cbbb44f254d727991b4c638b2d6ad3da
216 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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://cafij.co.za/YmrXLWy8?keyword=explain%20how%20atoms%20combine%20to%20form%20compounds PDF link annotation
    • https://dodotutole.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134764587/gasebidapibi-rodaronusanol-padak-sudafoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebasikerebevo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016880/polosi_napozofuleku_jarasazudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbd066ca8aa613d7253f932d3d7e4c14/97086478186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabozuritofawun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857241/60545b7991b782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://venusitos.com/kcfinder/upload/files/ronidojagiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/007999a6c0bbeac19dc71bba060d0269/32246167799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2904c6416bf125b47b3a54bc794ad432/jodulogesufis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezunojojifedul.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/2/141286499/gagatove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entwuerfe.premo.at/userfiles/file/30370380037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16224bcd1c2967---98645569421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arquivolta.net/files/13090836559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tefeteti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969297/wevarusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gp-lighting.com/editor_upload/file/82310093068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://befutoxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134443098/a4899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kezesefafuzer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/137518356/lopilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bc-galant.com/up/files/gavexidesukoluwupuwimigep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hro.ait.ac.th/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5155154442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pefuxulubix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134730973/6851120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/15095212218.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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0001621d.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0001621d.bin)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001621d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1621D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00017a2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17A2F 17356 bytes
SHA-256: 47ffec04639408764f2ef1c151a5c496ece9dfa9be24837a89d5823d849661a8
font_02_sfnt_off0001a788.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A788 11296 bytes
SHA-256: 793f8663e5a7a5f74a5d3f5af5d4805f1676a7e8a3e4e20356ad9d2528ced3af