Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39e5c5e30f021889…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-05-07 07:23:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 1df470ad7c93acc6f8c5a259ba0ebca8 SHA-1: 7889585ca294b55a135ef3995f92a0eeb811d22a SHA-256: 39e5c5e30f021889981eff16779296a94c17189511b69390db8e67253893be8e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters indicate a broad distribution effort.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 5

  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+circle+timer+github PDF link annotation
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e17a88bf54---vewebujukirodivojuwesudib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f8a0b0b50a494f87457ba6cbf4c02db/70736232154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82asttrojfi9k1h8eau9ep8or6/25598272666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a69734b82---47549029407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/zovokudanajulej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6737e928ff36b3d9e3a77518468bb26/81382638956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e632e2115a---xolutabemulukono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4han9a23apegmjckd762e5skl2/pezuvomimodisizedip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091199335b7f---73449522305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854a9ed11c0---kerexiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b74b6661f9---55448009790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/veziketubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa7fe6307f---18040347590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d152.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD152 6440 bytes
SHA-256: 629123bfde0685c5f69bbdd27ec008bde0224d5c30af1dabb990f6ee33ea778e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE115 3152 bytes
SHA-256: 9b3cbfb49f92646f77710f90d944aa7fb4a1b1794560e8894bf3cac2888633a3
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC62 5096 bytes
SHA-256: 117203a9db6248258c9a86bb0cc03f41410cf6e6520b10c87cb57c70c189a368
font_03_sfnt_off0000fd7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD7E 1936 bytes
SHA-256: 84daf345e21b08075a6e329eeacb0a13a0447ddcc3efc64e98a9a4ab9c6a9d9d
font_04_sfnt_off000106bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106BF 10984 bytes
SHA-256: efe1f6267dc340da7e831948f54d255582f115def4248d98ad75986f3f285315
font_05_sfnt_off00012c7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C7D 16168 bytes
SHA-256: 794d8cc090a449e0d460036171b2d5b2c749cb0dc3f17972c44626ada68ee3d8