Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4363b8c71eb43945…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:18:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 77a79915fa8181d4d9fbc5863bb24ce8 SHA-1: 6f17ce2ec2b0e49e9d67de4749ba35e5952cf0f0 SHA-256: 4363b8c71eb4394589b4f8d9e8fc1c7f45730c9fdadeb06c171fc7d73459f543
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, specifically targeting their file upload plugin directories. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs confirm a pattern of hosting malicious links on potentially compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c987c5dd01---muvira.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cea1a68ade9---joziradobazelot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinnaduraflex.com/uploads/files/zurati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/kasisepasagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/89348500767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da71dcebf1218a4c7657dcefcf19aa3/gamuxijuxume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/34175712151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbe325b6d44---zagizununap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb66cb751a8---tugaboxinanazoranin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/25614087270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210603162754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6c5cba8b50ab3a72ed3bb5eadd5950d/guluzazamokabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/basununafugolobokedasibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://execdentalclinic.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86699801908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/93313503602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/40656458712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abdb0e444e9---jakemafunuvowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a52b8ed2f3c6b163d4e83f8b3a3ca85a/migix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/17820047879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14qd7anru2643ubf5tl3v7oj18/futomejebegafanaget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99dd4a0bc1---43290219740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northphoenixmustangs66.com/clients/4/4b/4b49b54eec06ebba3741256e9f3e6f2b/File/gukezomoxewirurojow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/306d6ac175de9746369c837c0fa0c001/24343735032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c65a21777d---jafitefifusaxijofetelapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/linepifagezepavavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=interesting+facts+about+nervesPDF 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_off0000fdb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB6 10720 bytes
SHA-256: c12fdb369a905879fe708ba4533f58c3fea4d88a62f187c891d87cb97daa1151
font_01_sfnt_off0001168d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1168D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E9F 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 802d04fc9bc6b609a28efe7a57a50f3ed63e2abf499cffa01052f3e179f9c6e5