Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a5a51d806420b94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-06-12 21:47:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 700dbb7a13e3f9b1c62a8c60ab8ea7ab SHA-1: f77b554d0009344c68ee43ef7c285bed2bc804aa SHA-256: 4a5a51d806420b940ab47de91a9e45bad393e88d404bd171ad31b50fcfaac4c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The embedded content, though largely garbled, contains references to retrieving deleted messages on Android, suggesting a potential phishing or social engineering lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+retrieve+deleted+messages+on+android PDF link annotation
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/tesipuviki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/19742962865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/16826172207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd25325fec927f46f030b08146dd1930/diwilivafuselivubolime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/53292720525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/6905606439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-5/20210605163856893875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a0b993629---lejukilexipiludule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b742bd1b4f3---fulowewilunus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210514/file/16209675108495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/693dc9fb90288acc51f3a57bd251a564/93083025717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/84682395944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e1637516e---49136324849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zold-kommando.hu/files/vuwujumemokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rnhdm05qiq2dge0kkel8kcqo8q/rivet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webhenevents.com/clients/868374/File/13669229840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/vovajevelurenatuwesako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE720 2964 bytes
SHA-256: 7c5d88854bfdfde11679be7586a65994ff8ef6b173dc7cc3698a02cfb11f1027
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B0 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 2cadc48d3f17027622b793de3a918ecfff211b6f5864172c9941c33174009e3f
font_02_sfnt_off00010361.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10361 11032 bytes
SHA-256: a9e904006766c8cb472bc306ef0736deddc675e40d0a827eeabaa655ca79aa08
font_03_sfnt_off00012932.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12932 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333