Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34f3a50a5bf72363…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 05:18:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 3e26b31aefbbf70e685ea8f433d494ea SHA-1: 04d37a755cc8a22a22a8c5f6abb3fdb608cf94af SHA-256: 34f3a50a5bf72363f086925477dcea08dd26714874089e9a1bab3ffad354faff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

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. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into phishing scams or to download further malware. The presence of many distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest a coordinated effort to exploit search engine visibility for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mbbs+physiology+practical+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607732ead1b89---zexirizovalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/gumimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c542b645de7---88495175680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff446b0c93---15943087610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/25742917976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/43899112408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/64657277030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c966111e53---zufupifarikugoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d844lr0jfeq40qgn1u7jk4gpi/vipazosedufit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/bupazimezibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d8472a086---vazifapezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824e3e8d45e---panugevezuzixovatazavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7d493cdd9---78433428789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9b4c44994---ronijeluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ek92l24d283s737rp1rtallhu/febegosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/fotutefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/goviketudalugijewivafifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-cosmic.ru/sadm_files/84293240109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/bufikurase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/nowipozumunaged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mmot4ub974qi7s5nuikc0ifse5/tokefigew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f66fb922b---lored.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a71234f16---85170490045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/791ba998db7309dc8989930f8a326ca2/9001414877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60e9f667b0e06f13938f53b28c82301a/zomipanowijigebis.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_off0000c8ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE100 16888 bytes
SHA-256: 159e36382bd021b35d3786d720614f7813492303a4cf999ce45ec5ad39fac67a
font_02_sfnt_off00010d15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D15 11000 bytes
SHA-256: a0087cea6961ceabb26ba17c4d8ff9539a21e11a1db655e058dcb6bdf1988909