Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45e20b31aabc8766…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:52:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: d43a51023d80fdb73fd4a6c3bf55cca8 SHA-1: d6ca0e6f9b74888321d574226b406dc205877f96 SHA-256: 45e20b31aabc876625bd393e6fa76bfac21b8d4cf4a4af9819df32032510cf32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple websites hosted on compromised WordPress installations, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure of the PDF and the nature of the linked URLs are indicative of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0823b631fd785f93ef120629f3dbb7ae/84410003785.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/20214301529145585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb5dqbgj3dprdi4vf1bu24siru/raferalumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/98857956793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/61618116239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4c5cc475311cc5db873c746ed9308e5/67279185168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab6b1542b1cd242cafc3b503bc5939de/25004079587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/717a326e6f7482d8e78a71b3d8bc8f5d/51259147190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8b9699e53d5eaa17753a9760ac92593/84742645919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellsazshihtzu.com/clients/878694/File/fafinak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7dg7c50nn23fs3jd6u1lupq91/9766838808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/viwozugumitamagogixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psg66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92189894365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/43883320546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l97meadmut66leinugfjncsf15/18867114908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021062807431680554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/8788022326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7a12c611faa4984f6af85f74b58cff2/dopawukut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff9c6a3460---fusajorolijimagonekaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/044089906fadbf4f8a3df6322c8126ba/26167781723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=dried+mouse+droppingsPDF 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_off0001672d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1672D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00017f44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17F44 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 25bddec7705efed5c364818e6b4d442460215edec8443d7df4ecd159b821430b
font_02_sfnt_off000196f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x196F1 18040 bytes
SHA-256: 715d79dce85cabeba36183f219d9c6b4d72dd438c945a9394ca5745d9c80080d