Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e4abb4699ca9adb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 07:26:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: b42954ab1713e807eb0ca53e666461fc SHA-1: 008ce0136a1fdfb6a1744f4fa05d8ff7e4c92e64 SHA-256: 3e4abb4699ca9adb81ffbaf1cdb8ac48fc29b0a27e2aaee1a681854ec4827c85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of multiple links on potentially compromised infrastructure suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/30950409670.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29c33aa628e169da708aa46501cfd3b6/26523920573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/jipadepazuben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/32965704666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814f8fdd5ff---tugukezubolimuluvukifoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4e5f5fbfe---vuvawuguvufexivejeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f6e4a0e04---zudizelana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc0e30311a---gamekipololojaxevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.com/upload/mutimelagasedijabawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/jubizetisotebekubaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812b227c305---43237772150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9e03ab04a---jofumenim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4ed584ce8e---63933703871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/29568962363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df308840e59b31b0c21a837ccf5203c1/64768434086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9220186e0e---48760704934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pcasb451h8jimfog9jt4sk2q3d/60509044313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ab926b32c---muzemovovizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eddd07b5ed8aaf872c7c037a9a8be55/xotajuvobukiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f23b057a344ea1e7a5898fcc0c559d30/bemozisoxadowekozobokokix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04e6f68894---84791364084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a665ac7349f---vuzugorodofuvefoxola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=asian+mature+picturesPDF 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_off0000ea27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA27 16524 bytes
SHA-256: 2fd1ef0caee9748e1ef460457d7841585e24c6a5ff053feb43fefe7078fbc3ec
font_01_sfnt_off00011510.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11510 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 0699f946c007d3f7df3c71cc9572e1da1ea3d402cab8a401fddd25196eff4318
font_02_sfnt_off00012cc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1