Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51ab557c1fdbe37a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:21:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: c20f53a9346f7544035867730da226f5 SHA-1: 4d0be2cc531c0bb4f9dc62815027aee3fba39814 SHA-256: 51ab557c1fdbe37ae6e570e136e1b4c5652a1e90816e58652a5f09093123ce45
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of malware. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly indicates a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874fcf9c18c---35323675446.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/gawuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/26245876312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae1f8413c9b7284e94b21523da7cb2e1/10621146244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/6987399309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/3420871275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f6fdc333a---pewoxazexewapujadubalatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlianyu.com/uploadfiles/file/21164251356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726a87e5715---zekekidapabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topplene.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210617171843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30040da239---65656042009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/xeduvoruvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cef983f2170a48f58c6113667bace98/firodijidutojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.companyforte.com/imagenes/editor/file/90629695826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5o9ms4r3r1e7rcg2opl8prqi5/51825281929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgcaregiver.org/contents/files/35107286051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtrierreunion1962.com/clients/6/64/64567561842b0bbd40b956adda0282a7/File/wozefijazudokuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf4782827508f3a5ca677beac5bc31d4/1907374568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/42191415536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g0h1ntbvatvige3nbfltfsk0t2/bawumamoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purifoy2020.com/clients/1/11/118d8b7ee1ea4bab8fb19da95c56260f/File/60961003055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/nokobofejisezana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/jigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=probability+questions+and+answers+statisticsPDF 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_off0000edfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDFB 10948 bytes
SHA-256: d6857f6fec10b14d510231609870d06ec2efe860adaff7a9ffc367e2a91fe30d
font_01_sfnt_off00010760.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10760 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F72 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 879edc051991d06961f750e0b6d3bbd12acc421339399e7a1649df5bf86f2ab7