Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d989394a98248be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:09:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: e529c911a16aa9b6a9c908dd73180956 SHA-1: 6738cf3b1eec55b948f3d0cc7c193841ead58a2f SHA-256: 1d989394a98248bedcb1f7f5f2314badafc09f72d5f8069e2ba837f104303d97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final destination and potentially evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/labapamogimiveronuzenewi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da63bd10780---13613876921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4266a80c4b---14088029153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4c1db7e0aee66b9b538b524a9ccab95/40223851118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icnf965frtlq6mgi0s04akgukt/9647845532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terlickodds.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/30925108798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs1980alumni.com/clients/878257/File/dajogewamozawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavlasin.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aajsf6q45vj3sihgj9l20e0cum/dakakopojikulipijigoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjpjxt.cn/upload/uploadfile/file/rizelada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koffiewarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/sesopipeliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/kibigozizanujipugopowuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e43026e5af6bbeb0edd91320cb566f4/88678393286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d5016e0e0---fenomekosajipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dj8bjrrfatvo8ips2covh7427i/64577151874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078837013df4---gobarekugigibipuzikam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neonatal-surgery.ru/userfiles/files/99487970194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rj1d7gouo40i5amoslpr0h94gr/59868865291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/vapudetetesefosolanenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2acf18c21---nenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sterkrade.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705437bfc0d---20325852449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.com/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/57894677526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/54371320359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d576e3c607097bd185ff394d42f590cc/jebazizukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=seinfeld+episodes+streaming+freePDF 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_off0000efe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F7 18664 bytes
SHA-256: 4e99a651c13c0d566d95ab50c16cba32563bfe97c8e1762fdb66ece392308001
font_02_sfnt_off000138b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138B3 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 8e0a17114ddd116315684f433477758396eaf948736fce04c856c0d6165672d1