Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 445cd8c4d45bc239…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-28 02:30:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-12
MD5: 8012c74669996715c778fbc462487ac6 SHA-1: d616ff6939bfdd0d01e4c41d5163847091342bea SHA-256: 445cd8c4d45bc239dbd3b1cdec1971ee242120f3e45cb5c4cfa9e83a8f7a932d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URI indicators and the ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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=big+win+soccer+hack PDF link annotation
    • http://gemwishrs.com/ckfinder/stones/files/9933001838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/54476498955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslplastic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10126473888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinyardim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/razakavapafomuxatawaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villacappuccina.com/userfiles/files/70441389738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://londonjip.com/userData/board/file/bafifadab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/85695638299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gavagikitadubabawuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/gopemujurumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ea676dd67e---10000408534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/624b2b7dbfa512ee4591646044b80d8a/lepasolow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/tudoduwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/gowejibulodesuwokupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342902185f7---rojefezarupenaditovevux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/nibitufatoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67357940072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contal-farmer.com/uploads/files/6609218118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuhappyhouse.com/upload/files/553816617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocommercialedelpiano.it/userfiles/files/68916384057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nut-shell.net/upload/files/44689367022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/kunirowarimomisokumek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.db-ynox.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/780963927.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_off0000aef6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c708.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC708 17136 bytes
SHA-256: 4d39c6fef7878ab0d847d3351e00580e7463c2786eb28344a2d6ddb6f6ad93c1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D4 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 009a68a6d7200743421a07804beb4d1794d462e7fdd51389b605c26d592371e8