Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4456fdac1938f7ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2021-08-08 12:37:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-12
MD5: 1723f7d17c212009a08f448ebde521f3 SHA-1: 5fea61bb2f5550cb84ed4e8db55adacd99a1837f SHA-256: 4456fdac1938f7ae591fb03421f4d932a9f1865a7e26524d94e515aee5b3d96f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=artaud+van+gogh+el+suicidado+de+la+sociedad+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://uptownherndon.com/uploads/files/11632107287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duduwovoperepoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeshopeez.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/5062473492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/jazisuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4h3k9ovpd5q5arkd6qen9fv21/kikifekanimekitivifor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a141ede484f79f3fffcc8eb09e14c91c/jewab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d2dadd2c0---57593280166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/88573353431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoilersmensgolfclub.com/clients/865201/File/2077504844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de97882950a---9751391222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatvideo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vumegisikim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202107130657059251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd824d747b---wixoparekipozop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/69687690812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2cfeb666fae39d0d771eb04af130f7d/34494275114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099abdaf053d---84671263596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/15600950686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0a9542f7a---56675183780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e68momo.com/shopadmin/upload/files/zavilokomaxusadiwomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/luradinujiwafibivuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/rezewodudujemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c02c7fd4573---13412016908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b00cbc863a---fugejesagolefopas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d97061a0dbe110273c88998c87d0bb1a/supowuroferiromamuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/xixuposuvegodujido.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_off00010e53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E53 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012665.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12665 18908 bytes
SHA-256: e05f25fa2ae74a20fdfa983bc37b83857cfb205c496ad3fea4af8dfa959d342a
font_02_sfnt_off00015651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15651 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 557194cea1959e9a46fc630aa1a262b8acae73aa7caa82fadd34d2c575abf74b