Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 442596a131d8ce2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 06:25:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 3df7c12045d960a4c3cb52474f95a3aa SHA-1: e22b9b465cf63c1f5de4c6999bf1d46cc280f852 SHA-256: 442596a131d8ce2b2dfff10e68cc88169e47076c63ef171a6002363f51f53f37
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the document structure and URL patterns strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b00b9a0068d---77232915322.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/um2as6pn7q9rl3tid91e29r0u5/39600353739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d8cb563c2---dolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/rurugupavabizedarakejur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790bc737b39---153283793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa04d87069a---38809991907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/19136994558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868d9f25f3b---vediwupewovabufixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c92aa267e---56232366177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents//files/denux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b68401ba16---8476939695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e516c209a47c1a7ade666610cf85ec5/14650468244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4i1vqaq7mq5n1tjadkrfhf38s4/76001279588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607553c780485---83935407755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9492bac527---30913386546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a390cd16d---werepirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc81235aef---64938558213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/93331672293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/kogozoravuripajuxukaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ki7d179bg7gu0ir19rdqcjp0r/jedizufeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895aa8174e3---fopomidutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706e1043381---11226359321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b557320d5---95645269252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=severance+pay+tax+rate+2019+calculatorPDF 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_off0000d814.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD814 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF026 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 2f319425e13ae5f96484c69efb8b47335d2c9907e9de715319f8e4452e1f7042
font_02_sfnt_off00011c76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C76 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 907716447cd0d0e831985eee2f134588cdf2a97388a6d531c19fef1c4088113d