Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4259ad3cb0d3639d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:02:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 65b25f65ae0a19215916ddc6060c5869 SHA-1: 81048d08df7fd1f52d71fbf16c4eff6437d41db7 SHA-256: 4259ad3cb0d3639d27cee5f9f4f3e14a8b6b5cf9375265e0a59480c142aa0cb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely serving as a distribution point for further malware or phishing attempts. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hill+view+homestay PDF link annotation
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c5ea83065ae51cc9aaa17b5e62ae223/39846198040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8682c0dc772fc73baf19ead7627aff92/xoxekifaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/58385107203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607058d4d651d---dorus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/90467043038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m2shufuku6uckq2pfs60j5pc64/vexuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803bcef0aa2---zedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49phh7qo2mha4lcjpq0f29grj3/zaruwujudusuxafamalamirim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971fc24cf1a---85314020989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210614_1E9C903D4D152E01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nj4dpej3p9e3edkfdpkvdbfte2/tabitonojadupopogupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d75a751925390646e57ae9cbb13ed7cc/ledaririnudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabc849c3b5---86808902695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/29177625586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/35321700159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/sorixatuvifikojak.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_off0000e0d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D1 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 1759b76a89d5847c156ca6e8ec2457fa753d3ec83557ddb7ef8b4e103c0e5ba5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF881 16984 bytes
SHA-256: 78a2522093d206a276c9394d00793fbd81ebbb42248fc32f249325326bd8f613
font_02_sfnt_off000124a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1