Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 488f14a2477e2d26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:10:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: f9407e071289634454d07457c7f4d218 SHA-1: 4eab9445b848e483c662117356e9c708677ca926 SHA-256: 488f14a2477e2d263e2ea8045fc57fb50bb20632798ae9e0c2adf32ae08c8b43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thoracic+spine+herniation PDF link annotation
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65d2807edc---13060478846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/13317070603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/bafedidarujesulanov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1e1f440955---86716380575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/9817720112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/zoderotogudiziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b53e6661f---zofepoguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1f1bea55a---13057931455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyn-koe70.de/obrazky/file/malikobujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/buwosafiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7fe55ef5a---31059191353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/tivujomurulewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4bf310de1---63013905295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62c3f5cbe7---dagupotofavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/jilogodujaposuvozuromekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16b1608a64---70848272990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67512815664.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_off0000e5ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5ED 16844 bytes
SHA-256: 625dfafaf3786c84019eec85617e3e15333c0c07e92c6c1f51253cdb7b88db65
font_01_sfnt_off000111cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129E6 10388 bytes
SHA-256: b8db3dda6cfe009b027fc831cca0df286e0f46013719d170bd4706bd5be821ff