Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2142f1987371ffe6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 14:58:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 1129ce9a9902e8be18f0e21909ee9698 SHA-1: 18847e608c2f56ccd17882240698f38008bf5670 SHA-256: 2142f1987371ffe60d8cedce478f195f087e03a80b0cb626dd30b6b758dec60d
164 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 indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=you+only+live+twice+full+movie+download+480p PDF link annotation
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/68252171614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/93671696808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b608c4bb2---40819728246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chemasan.lu/userfiles/files/wajedofijosavaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/medinib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/54766369871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/14741581139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883a3dcb61c---4365035957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05794a65d6fadb5bbd3e112c4e6f85a7/61602599250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abaj.cz/UserFiles/File/misenipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28fb3b85ba---tujopifulafapezazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/37915494188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14715520335ef128a42ad78d16d68e94/soxufizakexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gv654aucdpnab9udon23mjbip7/21368506965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2fbd1a193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/072opou8elr6k10hh03stc7epk/panabofozitibuduwotejirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/dewigipimugisiwuvoraxanuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesemlak.com/test/images/uploads/files/tanijumototunexogijuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6f3650f02b9fd824cf436cf0f511c1f/34188614455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreejians.com/userfiles/file/kirupojixowobowedorepozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/depinimowexozivasago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/nufefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/pepabitewelomijumonev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4305a586d6---jevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa0107a126c7a4558e91098af45de1af/35839887996.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_off0000f750.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF750 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F67 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 9b9edd0cf993ca4b2989a7cabb0c457e45cfaeefe7577ecbf050b4f1e64b0d90
font_02_sfnt_off000129f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F2 17468 bytes
SHA-256: ff54595cb024b0aeabce33205fa7f64bdd6d897e7e8ff8a708c23df9b54e9b09