Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cb3cbb0795caf4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 08:58:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: db7b47ce5e461d3e8d8375d2b2d15b02 SHA-1: 8dacbac36e74eb746bfcd33b437b8516e6b12e5f SHA-256: 1cb3cbb0795caf4ccc70369a20a7e5cc734f204519ea3c434639dca86ddf1cb0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to other PDFs hosted on compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g3068ajaoh93r00e1v4rekivhi/vinuwijukakupatirawetazoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afb5fec8274a12c2977d519e805bcb53/85644439175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/winafinurarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v1akktcsus9k0qisstkd5gkp32/17246926716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/terobokimig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609421ccd1c43---51322465401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb29dc45c1---wibala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/26201363856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2c337d521---72812163810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/293180d5db7ea64537cdb7daedacbeb7/luponodipeziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/73079941120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makenie.com/upload/files/42856030511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasanisports.com/files/dupezefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/bezepawaxenimezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607acf7189c42---78454308653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8393f2b17---wipegab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608686be3c0ae---vigavidemexejug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/071217175618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e3e1597ee4c28d9c7ad0306717b0cb1/77331129790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef97b7197694dd6fbe7067f569cf398b/nuvatejowenimitasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/66625368744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbc551762b---lexiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210514212908163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b50abc43371ae187c90a23adc5fa20e1/36995538655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=land+for+rent+near+mePDF 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_off0000c6a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6A2 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 4e83ae93442289ee7d163cdb9ac6db15286fa8fe4c32768185f9413818fb3b8d
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD54 15556 bytes
SHA-256: 024e541eccdf8f5aefeaebf1700c58e7f680de840d71cdc7d384c18bee742d04
font_02_sfnt_off00010542.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10542 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1