Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 445a63c46de6823b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-06-01 20:05:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-12
MD5: 5340a5d3dea5cbb9672bc00bb11ac717 SHA-1: ee5cfb1fbacfc28993d74be664dc2e2040cc1cbc SHA-256: 445a63c46de6823bfb08d9aa290baf169841ba9f43984f3429cac3c22708c3ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to search terms and application metadata, suggesting a deceptive lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+difference+between+descriptive+statistics+and+inferential PDF link annotation
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/klgevioaa244uev9i3s7h3qo90/95462904903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819877ee81a---46146044325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839d457a16c---76202030753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/7374418297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ab82e68aa---18552850968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a94ff8c68980acd9232b889b0e3f625/76468307889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/wukemijoler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/624363329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b70a2b8477---65783797379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944bfed72b9---74290512351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b115d4481ac---14093144094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/96281168073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/tixexafusuwaxizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/90937060615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/914b54d3a56788de66310a6e4c3dae50/dukuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2b2f77d2e---nelufexub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7aa8abaf0---sodogomelif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f656ad289f---25140308631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6rfe0r96pbgnq99csr2keirr8c/81994896327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D1 5548 bytes
SHA-256: 54b13095cb60fbcd9ab2c9d9128fc32c493e8ce74336ca6221ef859dae928d0b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C2 10964 bytes
SHA-256: f0d851794f8d54626e48a8c060e22eb202fb4d1a4b12409cb939535b23e87873