Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40b5cc992bd21fcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:38:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: f9c0bbb67366f1c767cd07fabdbc21c4 SHA-1: 9bfa4d90eb9d7e894f20ca5b352e1156d4cabddd SHA-256: 40b5cc992bd21fcb8d709caf492a2d4880646469ecdf2a137a613752f26da277
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of embedded URLs suggest a potential for further malicious activity, such as downloading second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=add+page+number+to+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090edff5edb8---pulusanade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/64068103949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cu9j6ae3mvq0v9ambdiic51vc6/tobozanupat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c24b88a66565409c40f2a9917b32cbdf/71342836720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/dopavajexevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/padive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75acc13a0f---penutixikerinodonikevalup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e522fc40fc8cd7627e7bf2fb880b827c/78184904019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907b04f3664---62817571829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a47763a9b0---kubobajojiguxoturasuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0v5fmuj31b5gvn924uqhoqjtu5/tabikaxijinojosusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d80433be788ae8888fa3c8a5beb4e5ea/puwutujubanokokemuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dde5628eb5---64490134325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cristal-in.fr/userfiles/file/48064677367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/725f67e619235cffa58e6d6117f63678/28011304713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c2fed8a0f5838a1b52b0048ee8d0ce1/47374270063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bdf40356f1---lugipavubovazobepatese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817108ecc7e---begisuvidup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/kobarodutobifowisale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c87bb34a7f5b0eb2ab3d239cb6dacb08/moveda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e48ff6a5d0---junavim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/tunezubafefuxokafixixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/suvozakopavod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deesudcoolingtower.com/userfiles/file/posiwidorumivil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5866b6e21d---78497645508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qsgrb500790rt9lkhb7vt4eggv/29818779474.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_off0000f5eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010dfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DFD 17276 bytes
SHA-256: 735358d2637dc060e87dd9df0dfdd46a5f94558cc502db4d5ae2b7a6bccac5db
font_02_sfnt_off00013b43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B43 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 2e4198749b6e59f1525b0f91abcf2bf229ee88bd2c13ca80e7ad456e2596d24d

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