Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37836700d1d875d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:59:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 8d0f94faca29e7abe0aa7d15b53f184e SHA-1: 17695ba073ae5532dd53126135ad86c1e4e2c157 SHA-256: 37836700d1d875d69b24ce8f29e0e72bef100ddcc599bcb74b4010d431fee7f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=article+1+section+3 PDF link annotation
    • http://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/53409739732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75034dc936---30424596710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/biripixadomem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odum6q0269j0r2b3f0tir90786/jiwejikikunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1966.com/clients/8/85/85e9e0a76fddb83d7689cebc6ab07fae/File/44538187270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.it/upload/vipuwopifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27e584be35b51aa9d0856a6eef70ccbd/60889178279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70eab0d2bcdbf063177b7e219f316321/xuzidipidodizilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgrg2h9nrl40dg29sjh5ncuc61/18028602616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a3590cc9f72477fc475115dd551527f/velebinovesufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mrtc6fvl72rug6fqkfoj7vh305/kovogabuvaxaposevavutite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/xefogubukenus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8573286c9---87196240338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160995986e628d---73178200873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namdolove.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_305451ADEC9A29AC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/peruvad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/89670942278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1b5fd5edb---52041747146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e37534458---63448998519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h8bdkov7fu58tuspkj9b9md8pq/vilipigobujisatulivage.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_off0000f780.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF780 17220 bytes
SHA-256: c2837afcd961af647fbabfe9c64b365b1f7bc7c1ce26c5a6a927db5510391652
font_01_sfnt_off0001247b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1247B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C92 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 3649338dd2e58d43d7569320a64add4c8b5461f5830d07d5650d9d24c917baff

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