Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4586a841a8090f35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 19:44:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: cb2c55af8629be4736b525331c139ae8 SHA-1: 90dfadb2f704780d23356ffbb02868ce51ab3830 SHA-256: 4586a841a8090f35c531854d01f3d23a36affd8c57a4e7f98ee73c35472f1326
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking discernible user-facing text.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed359f6963f303fab3145be51c7121f4/gijodo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb9ef02e96---tomigozokezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a0a0b6ff0461ebda896788c7c2663a0/zosutukozogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15251976179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075747586d0a---juzubuwonebap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wavobogorakafikamedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc87u2pbi8hojphnd2k3ooem5i/70408835021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/50665857619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f1724ad53---89021885296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a265593b2f4---54783043031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keramann.ru/uploads/files/gejexanepavezijozarade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861e7610226---45123823030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/tobep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/vatinituzadusigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b14dd7323---23232964624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akekaluck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/salutabugemuxasexebikelew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medrea.ru/upload/files/83438612645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088942aa0c72---mitimedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8c8ebc57529d98248ecb380ca06d5d4/miwimijoladivunuxazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c76461e51d---mofavosadolowevumedupomub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/29903387643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/64795636291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+monomer+of+nucleic+acidPDF 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_off00014dbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DBF 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 823b06d6d5e7f19ab8ac3a414f27ffc2cd428a70c4d013f1aeb5c5a034fad1d8
font_01_sfnt_off00017be9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17BE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019400.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19400 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 4b8b0e6c877cab18fa91c30295af46159373814f82db9b2e2dd1da299ab461c4