Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4459fddbae272601…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-08-07 18:49:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-12
MD5: 94435f089493c607682b7630c9bf8f6c SHA-1: 4af338cb4a8e386fd1a1afb8d19d706260510a51 SHA-256: 4459fddbae2726018b8989716195836abcafccd8b01a9ec0f81702db2f696ea3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a PDF link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bfbf75729---28430491739.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvf7h4rguili30ovl292nea3ea/gosimepazusadina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ondrejkocar.cz/img/file/kuwedixasilulelixozegipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/jogefefikufalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://language-coach.pl/uploads/files/12358774188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de0ddd276a---82171606734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/10962653873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851edb13b47---19811819193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raylutickenterprises.com/userfiles/files/58536145226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/wazofabanisidifel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solar-makernavi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dejedel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abe2568867c9cf26cef380c6684dcd40/44275297652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210615_0EC5E22D4D576EAA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcrm.cloud/upload/files/62611400169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/4576483024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9932ddbb3a624a337dafe4e6b3103a73/kovolipamewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce053dad6d---lozifazopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097b838bb739---zutodajafapodabonudidizun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://candbco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/basakupuwuvukugiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volareinmongolfiera.it/userfiles/files/domukiwopilusonavedow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovaimm.it/userfiles/files/maxizizewovoxemekose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onellenorzes.com/uploads/files/29407191985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0a797a7467---54628832067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/bajipexefibojikideketekug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yfatc.com/userfiles/file/6802701406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=lovevery+play+gym+guide+pdfPDF 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_off0000f554.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF554 17316 bytes
SHA-256: 6cce52ac3ad4bad9734eaf185a8afc76548bf13c81aecee7d53cd89a91eed7ab
font_01_sfnt_off00012299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12299 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ab0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AB0 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 1c7e4b7f9fa63c38b4630db383ce8f993f23c3549bf5f931dd626acb16f3a1bf