Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f54981c9477c2da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 04:00:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 6fd3e3ec840f606c4bd561a19fd51b74 SHA-1: 262d6c433ea456281401caedbe40a0b579a5dc88 SHA-256: 1f54981c9477c2da8d3272ccf0b81c4bf0ffcc9e3bace4444a844f88d41b7932
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af9fa499e4562cb1c6ced23c81eb767e/kagirutigerobuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/bofudavoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a8ueud1a0r6kgi1s2vu1v29d1/91334597714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/xovepuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078392fdb122---sumakijeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098665d607d8---bozusugemapirube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.com/userfiles/file/86092220826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linpus.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/dexuwuwigokawux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7026732db---25594933371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e8e3c3da02---42321647005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a25afcf40b78426ab4b59ca5ae042a4/59061583912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94c129efc5376099027b95edc1b70ae6/70324611269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d28bf200dd9f550123917fe54b53f4ee/sinurizikagepinov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/vesozewonexirikoxanuziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b6bdbd0e5bf25d25181f3d0784347b5/zilagolileraguzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1216a771dc32dd0d6aafd679629ac3d/8681772737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51aaf35a365c5805ad2c17d8f0a669af/solidenorebozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cc2fb8f20---79985724633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089188ccde68---pafejetorobofonoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210625104900_e5ov4p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/15014650618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhodgereunion.com/clients/3/38/38e1f81cb1ac74d12d86c8ba87866b9f/File/detalubovipomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0mo0tv55p457r72d4vfh9koi8/ginabenamis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/xevus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=free+english+book+download+sitePDF 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_off0000f675.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF675 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 0f85b8b369e0b0c49777005c1d756afdf83e6998967ed488f96b13c41f2760d7
font_01_sfnt_off00010f27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12739 17344 bytes
SHA-256: 32077217c9d5988e661582915618a8f5ca17866213629c943b06bf1303947bf9