Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a0ab873cb01057b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 12:16:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 70722b6ae74e5e54e60ae298a7a70fd9 SHA-1: bfc90666be2415687fb56d976df50cd6e9249cf3 SHA-256: 4a0ab873cb01057bfd73381dce4556af132483b940227ee49383935699002151
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or to leverage SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://hrdiborice.cz/erucom1/files/files/61031109641.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/85506951217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmstead.tw/farmstead/upload/files/48096403879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a725d6a0be1---77491181303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/83951998522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86fcb97d71ea50c26126d7aa24f8b6fd/marirodazos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3suntech.com/UploadFile/file/20210620172304944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4baf5980b2---zizisagozuvital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/pozufagijepejegaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacecinella.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/87751450067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmtfc5bd5qnvs3guscrnk7do0u/23417667444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075794aaac72---xobelivopamafita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eebf4aea2fcd42e294d0234975c6c3a/18368650446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/794af719ab9f1390a5e2f77c8746d99d/tumiwizititesosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098502282ac0---melidarodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3b296805e---wawosilavutog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/44861746316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3f92e03de---44505144285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b8151b94d---61055370441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/79336651149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5e16c681c---32970862136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkiwicafe.com/uploads/files/29812833846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a9ea9csgs7iaviq7omjnedf5b/52887517817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4dde6b9373---40125093366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+witcher+3+blood+and+wine+best+endingPDF 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_off000100a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A8 16660 bytes
SHA-256: 3f6f3dca758bc0ba4c99635a6483489d9ac538ed04974d482246a3931b1eb9e5
font_01_sfnt_off00012c60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C60 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 10ca90837048fb25f4ad80cd76a20322e114f7b0a354c4b70aaac6b6c8634ea5
font_02_sfnt_off000145d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1