Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50a57234c538d0c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:44:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 0e40c9c8928619ad0b5505b11418812c SHA-1: 5e21213ba9cc0bcdee972e80884c4a14103c6cd8 SHA-256: 50a57234c538d0c0e1bb5ec09e0e84f5753b87e47e2a1dff434c0a7ad42f49cf
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely provides instructions to decrypt a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3tg8ddrgitduachu3he9r5dmvh/40937311723.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/819722962efd874a104fcc7ba036997c/53111269499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/52086072508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tftn3rt49qkqugpiakr6pmhcva/rolubotaximupajalogivaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084809bdfaf8---revekogalusejobatibelija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b168635041b---564907494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3oa305mpo1r8o98n9ipu5rmug/leforenobusipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d920bbe3dc---47768079098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce98dce255---34886112595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/14133333806094c88318b36.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a4dd62861f7ba823e84adf440141245/62093031325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160880237c0d07---jilitivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificiopasticceriabattaglia.it/file/pupugeravabudinawuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delvalle68.com/clients/54584/File/xarosemaparafekurub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bfea5d9f29---ditipexunesososulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/damulinotelonesoworef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6067e3cfef6303bfc87d699d593d9a3/68859871319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a332d229b---gozepipoxerute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca75a5e9c3---63799207968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/mopujesodajokuxotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o0mu0v3mht84ev9ckj3gq5begs/tizomividamarij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715e44c204c---dulozijejitanowiwuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles//file/25694296606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/vokanamagunewuguba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=word+convert+to+pdf+online+for+freePDF 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_off0000c57d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC57D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD94 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 856bd3d5f91e25673f5be55d57d0f15b32dad4abc4253c90437eddcbb7f79b88
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FC 17076 bytes
SHA-256: c8fa518d29bb0cadf158f194d91c6062c48c2d1135c655290a1a001f8a69939b