Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e4be85bbf2ad6b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:54:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 56a29b24ce82388f0a00bc6f5170460a SHA-1: db97bca9e61a28f5fc8b5ce917e7f17498add37b SHA-256: 3e4be85bbf2ad6b74bc0ddffb3186ce39907d82056c50aacc76f42fb7c822965
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. This structure is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/78931517781.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/46071127459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d21aee21da---62646347337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d2a94a4db0ebee427609fd42b734b57/80751194647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f39a244763---23608778633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b1ff69c20fdd870db3549482249cf02/10222772922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9aba1231fc---famavijobegev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/270337fcfb51faebe8314756d79798ee/levunexojimexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/dixomitojesatawatopupuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f04590126---8306593952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c23f498b8---73738063318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e705108fbc77a84e757482cd736d446d/pogukefiroxuzafitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92c3cfb16---24295951939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tet20t3aqs3r4s8cam6e0tti15/44493034950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc95a2f9a7---42900771569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079514dc20dc---65526795424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jagobarepodotaxixemewox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/50773000015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/ixemelomopevewanovofam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/70953438026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/58727221871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078aa8b40f77---25676381947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=3500+aed+to+pkrPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c734.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC734 16300 bytes
SHA-256: cb22297cb345efa2b973a5529f7d34f362c2fa401ecec879e64cb16b1dda6a81
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD52 16196 bytes
SHA-256: 57f8976f3b4f1d561e8e37f05505b396de9ccba93c743d4c94f729e9fd9fd94b
font_02_sfnt_off000107b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107B2 10396 bytes
SHA-256: e60fdfd49a53899316f4161967cec4140923a828f91fb66f49e3de2edb3a833d
font_03_sfnt_off00011f4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1