Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1dc31166cfb6dc83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 21:20:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 01e0bef1b9aa43befb13b089579a7847 SHA-1: f35315d98d322905246ac476d891be9f5a753ed2 SHA-256: 1dc31166cfb6dc83a24a9ea61497f868fbb759b661e581af325fb3afc8ee3526
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a large number of external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not directly analyzed here, further supports the potential for malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+units+digit+of+a+two+digit+number+is+3+and+seven+times PDF link annotation
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ace3adc7e7---ruvarudovozaritatigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba58f99c303---jomibosologine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.site/aym_image/files/nudoxojoreluzogileke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f95ba917c---46647193473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/31488733391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c69d902f87e---xividukekonuroxukurilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094533f3da1e---tiwizakajosad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/65279609723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soportedevida.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1263225836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/16320597205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc0aedcbf5a---pizepebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ckm3k3hmlu4ptc4n6jl0gosm0/70963851551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vshtf6f96attlh96drdgal3imv/fotomerorirexubapes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1542104558---jemunetegapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/suxafijofaguloxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haustechnik-hagenauer.at/bukidatopolugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/70527240228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ci8g9j811b359isi9bepqm4v27/kapojapipekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/68671442396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/18284842208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765963c3982---lizutetafado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lp81oe5r2jgmq8cs32e14add6i/kazosesupetobaxowatet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070045e33168---87015189104.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_off0000d045.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD045 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e85c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE85C 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 758e15aa041c78cc2735b5415347b0548903bca8d819cc897b3a0624669183bc
font_02_sfnt_off0001028c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1028C 17040 bytes
SHA-256: 0333528d2a60b14bbd27a9c1c8a611f85d9132e4d1a8ea4ce9380758eedbb342