Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41203c68c897566c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 15:15:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: cea18686dec06a0fe6fe8f0cf053029c SHA-1: 668f870f07af88c94421a1058b58dda0970d5e38 SHA-256: 41203c68c897566cb90a02e6a8884e6114315f6f76c91ce434a48a6f0182afa6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/46968980101.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e73375292---misobodiliduxiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/824100d01b58794c40b19f687f1587a5/41448897236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd4e389cf6---54081120192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikico.net/img-tym/files/26646448614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///85018162079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99de68f42e770a1a55f3524cf51504de/sowapitazebemixogojuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f108e18ff53f33b6b75188526d94725/45088632396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5683db3ba7---27125855878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6822522c9c---57237420117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81297be90318d256a1ef7f3995d3be05/19418174393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/masabividepigejamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608370f18da0b---13414211057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///xefewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e46eeb9aea6651f68748e5b662e2828d/59303619030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/9548801266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v29cg8f7oqoop60tsbg2h2jkrt/95903334613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2144700cbd---sebixojoligagidijefobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byecook.com/ckupload/files/gepegevime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///65087805784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f11d4953cc7ad3ea51cbe37c41d3d979/54430881039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab85f795a7b16a53d76f83fe44310961/8107367259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b434vdmusbulfadrccks0ftru6/36935001516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6268f4d13960d36363c37f329a0397b/29112892256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/buwexiweviwodelos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=vocabulary+with+mPDF 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_off00010e97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E97 10500 bytes
SHA-256: e3f335a79a4f4c8dc4b464a66ec76627e97e8bce0bfa5b79b1f7a7fe5664884f
font_01_sfnt_off0001268b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1268B 17912 bytes
SHA-256: 2748852dfc4ea74b3a188d4fc2c17d4d2caccecaa30a30028ab83e6116742d1c
font_02_sfnt_off000154ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1