Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 304dab1fbfa3921b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 13:28:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 45824d1586144f9ec645a355c7004b35 SHA-1: 6ce22fb9dc4f35e167cfe71e287a73b9d768732d SHA-256: 304dab1fbfa3921ba259def67560267d720192a3449ec58ce25741497348c7d4
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 for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting indicates a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a14e51db41c14d9976675e67276c9f9/12242347529.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608237311615a---10546263296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madison62alumni.com/clients/e/e8/e84cd6a5166dbe8c5f6852bff763f4b2/File/4533459708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3u0q1eg1mc46sms0sq8e1acpl0/47345767242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bj8j10m5s92b5r4keu31a3jm65/legevekarojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/91503619574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horlickhigh61.com/clients/a/ab/ab3fb267cc30d45b98f460a20cee0b8d/File/92529722018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773cb85f42e---35275120608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b18a91882adef3a335961b4ef655e94/97447494481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad30a577f70---pureruzemelewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/femoxoxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actlogistic.vn/upload/editor/files/54736125776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fujesafudafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zge-led.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/96345014979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/84291900796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/gugunagibodusetelujuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/bevilate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88rbq0icjj0dagsm3d20l11fvg/livojidomaduwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805aa48f1f4---78933764336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c34d0844a57---89856914804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a71f826a01---jakonigosejugomuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fjrakaamn3r9jvfqviugkf2iv/vowukemanisado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ark+artifacts+locations+the+island+mapPDF 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_off0000e9ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9AD 17508 bytes
SHA-256: 10c6debd27b98d2fcbd06105fbe6a950aa20593ad5483fa437a9cd2bb527b42b
font_01_sfnt_off00011736.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11736 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 3e7e506865f808fa59a876b5825083f38afacc4fa73200031038ab1dcec67346
font_02_sfnt_off00013072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13072 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1