Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a235aaf72e45780…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 10:35:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 7230cb299d33429416b09f1f31190442 SHA-1: 36279f10840fbcd581ce1be61c50af3e66001593 SHA-256: 3a235aaf72e45780de9d3821b6bfa5ddde319e0bf081dd89177ef2d4e8470cb9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=who+plays+clay+in+13+reasons+why PDF link annotation
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66ffa2b401fb8a4e0d554d9eb762f69a/gijudowuxuzikezilaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073793d6a77f---17987031301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51addd964a24685e76d7fc2996d69026/fafata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27797c1fed---22448362056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khanikango.in/file/tiguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a331d10481b---narogadovigufawufonanazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///39845877745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mujuerp.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/20210605060742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/25502628511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encoregallery.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db4f1ad263259516c23553357e81575e/wifabetimuwidajomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshopekerala.com/userfiles/file/73528964589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c224cc59b1b---wuzobimobadofegekiter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptheduc.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/xoxevugadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa012d78a8359de034c03439610b4fc4/85855785312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovalpolycoats.com/media/16524145694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienmaythanglong.org/uploads/files/43766985157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/savawolumaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/robanitumetasiwiguzaxefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matskaren.se/anvandarbilder/203/files/72576533143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iberia-ex.com/images/blog//file/91688816792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocbq2eah049mkc78kv8k0rq44q/numurubufonagij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c30b567fe---21778704782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a3f17462fdfc255f0183148c4e42cad/63484510762.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_off0000e783.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE783 10792 bytes
SHA-256: bbf3d0028e17a76ff59d4b9d105c6a97e2749dbd24315bc1beb3cf490bf29ee4
font_01_sfnt_off0001007b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001188d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1188D 16676 bytes
SHA-256: 118f0416b5e81593cd6b1fef7b68722c79d35d277cebe09629cd5be55b5dc5ea