Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c695d541782cd54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-07-23 04:51:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 566b97ac1ac4408b34b04dec3b136ea6 SHA-1: d85821e95fb8256c90bc97513d54a84f2debd191 SHA-256: 4c695d541782cd547a33b5db39ca43b847be2b27f2bb2935f3c7757a2d7db0ac
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://gustosandvic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/famipusibutufa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rayzerfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/08/08e2d5bcffca37c2e1a82d364f4296c6/File/35357598170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandirent-new.ru/uploads/assets/file/48150327750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210703132350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fce5f3c57b---57292984426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609165d53a969---42738030898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ntvp7q3hlg1qsgeuoltmuo0svc/mexan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b0c29692f---tevigivoxoliro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca60a0f735eab7959852eac6f6a3a64d/berirudivasisaramunimoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b005eb1a4---39446675230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacinsara.ro/fckfiles/file/69499777583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17d666c99c---momabedixavuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a261d2568---14397694163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rotudavid.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4007134520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e6j5rdch0qvjs9t5m0vmnjv31/29688426551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/53144179602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202171453068525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giustofiori.it/file/20920827275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75af4e9f273fb3b682771f4db9e82733/likedafurilamazuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/18695100590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac81efc8202---xemeladazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personnelcle.com/userfiles/file/59508392143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapmarkt.com/userfiles/file/65119082527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=uncharted+highly+compressed+pc+game+downloadPDF 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_off0000f8b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110C3 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 7afa422bb7d301ed1ea061ee2180cfd268dbf59360c99e3d06770502454317e4
font_02_sfnt_off00013d52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D52 11168 bytes
SHA-256: a3b4213a609de2a67da7bdc0142e9b60009ee031bbff9a2e08528bc105f074d2