Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53319c15ef599da1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 07:18:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 4c8de7479015e4ced182aa9ab5caa246 SHA-1: 96c3e5aa58d592cba61845a9935cfb00e3d65d31 SHA-256: 53319c15ef599da1b3128d67f82dd46b1048a64e09ae634dfa9ac9c34b70bb49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to these external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/jevolanipeso.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://josepholszowka.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kufurubixoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c91a11711fc0f4b20b708270524cb71b/fosivuduwafeladuwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd5f9411a6---64449630711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/98317649657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cb72d7f69---26960983126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921856dbfd5---tavijatififebirixituriwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/52336653921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9um8mf1guecd59plu594b8frbp/fepofodefagideziki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607007b103046---67531267949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--72c7caerxx0d3a9eve.com/UserFiles/File/80993765445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmvlubfstqmhg2v83efi7dngr3/sevalafixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4e2c7602d02f2c3338ca8fac6bc5d0c/zorupazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dv1at85hid3opvn2am0f3fp7p3/48634701812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/71700370662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/67745709838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d58cbe950---177158266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/xotined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bd89f9297c3274ed7ca3ad5146dc08e/46394345287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/74874283692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfae3dfa9aa3aaf97b1670f7b5646a28/29843880647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ade43b64f---94489345862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=when+i+was+seven+years+old+songPDF link annotation
    • http://medlab.webd.pl/upload/file/gojamovejobinisorovutovef.pdfIn 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://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_off0000c9f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e202.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE202 15828 bytes
SHA-256: b751653d4f47abc63b99d29f9b1a1ded43af2574ef1e3d543b4a86be0cd7d254
font_02_sfnt_off00010ab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB4 10688 bytes
SHA-256: e1f6f059056b44080dc8f515e219d3ea7f8abe073481551e85c491458b19c90d