Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 445faaa26375e7a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-29 14:48:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-12
MD5: 24d55eea5362f32fbfc561b92e3a1e6b SHA-1: 8c91f9def9e0d92e543877359ad0b5a185a09009 SHA-256: 445faaa26375e7a1ae30b14884ec841f32f357f2207f284eb5a82812b7592c54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve to obscure the true destination and distribute further malicious content, such as phishing pages or malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/mazosifufapo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pmeds.us/userfiles/file/25605632576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145c1a4f3966---39012926397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwwilson.com/uploads/files/90830005958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/712816c6705bdb5e582cb834ba130cf0/12714133161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stefani.cz/fck/file/bototudur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mefolaradenokag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gertiesbloomers.com/kousumi/nulook/upload/fckimages/file/47911841443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdprescription.com/ci/userfiles/files/64693939892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lionsmarsala.it/userfiles/files/suruxuwate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukinserv.hu/file/nokukotawib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elektrostroy.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gamilulazazigadened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/14963117528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philboyd.com/32503717954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/wuwizetivuzakorewil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letdentalab.com/img/files/nitakotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/wirifebadigepigakowunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144f3c434700---83429743961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/27681444093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6395461a9722beb5902b186b2161782/jiweraxudosiboxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60263615507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tythb.com/uploadfile/files/baxaludoxiginilet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordan.si/dokumenti/file/wubapufowefofibufufodom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=android+igri+besplatnoPDF 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_off0000b0c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D5 15440 bytes
SHA-256: 3eb2e0fe1c0e3fc0fef5e0e1272b38f89cdbc037095b06a41da8560b0d45751e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF026 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 6eb4b494417283cdeda760a9acb541915ebfa18db8d1a95e817f519a5be857bb