Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1df9a2353ad49807…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:32:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: a16e9d6a68f2f7c5598e2a8c5e28524b SHA-1: 99f57b7a819d957f074f98046dad48f55b1ae83d SHA-256: 1df9a2353ad498078afea3bcaff7f07438e6349d2bdb959c34ec062d0511e203
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+discord+id+on+mobile PDF link annotation
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/zexubapotaxusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ce448f9cc---72099674069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/rexabativuwibimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e749c772e2---84401198769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littlelightnepal.org/userfiles/file/54582933092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c39d70311---wumudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087000b1ad9b---xegexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d2455624c---wugifiwegesesipoduwadud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/3556103973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphambambi.com/webroot/img/files/xabavijovoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5284abfb76ec78fcad5118d019a5a517/10967825027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0ck6l6hp97sfp273jg1i1i3bn/nunoxekanuxovotut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://venusland.vn/app/webroot/img/files/liziwumiwudijunowosolow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fa7089509c5f317c694eefa27b1899c/25994239112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14e7d8538f---wivujupuxaxaxizumajanaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/27382352949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocbps15ju6a02llnjabd4h1dv0/papukurebiwuvuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072597b29375---sudawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/bidanutepedupavefafod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b304d8d5b5d---16654121434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/denawolodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a795b7249e8---mekidobazejewiwugoxefofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8723994fdf8c9d75eefad2883d9574a/vigivizeronosexuwosid.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_off000107c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C9 10692 bytes
SHA-256: c5151f13b668efeb56e37c7c216daf6c40a08ca3f1bad2e39ee5c4cfb8591156
font_01_sfnt_off0001204a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001385c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1385C 19344 bytes
SHA-256: aa2b6f4bb1ac85a849790a03ffdfc909ae9a2cbe0f0fd6518c078f8b50e08b19