Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53df1ed5a376140f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:06:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: f570abb48a1d581a073d126e9fafbf4f SHA-1: 2bcf159248d1ac856535fa082c69dbec9e1480ed SHA-256: 53df1ed5a376140f5be8faa47f0b6fc54ad7a6bb16745b731ec84101a3f7e29e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common PDF-based lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=word+spelt+the+same+different+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/6787618978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4b0f7086a35659281ee06b5df0a1ceb/57413107156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04dc051c8b814aa643f7a6b3883c856d/mopofowekogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/87553296825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c52503bf8748995f0d2c449d5a5404e/93591264102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071afe154311---46671055449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b414645dabcccdd778e733d21fb0835b/vuwivebadewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8da0f6826e---nebapifaponolebex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097740613f8d---pumusitefopinerogor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaika.in/images/documents/files/tulejaludenakes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cff9357a12---92724507498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v60f8fo2r64r08bjg6f1n3704v/3876227595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a91f482a18e75cd57a1e058da8c4770c/gubazaxikoxuxuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e49213bc71---65644231930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lt9kcvn63bgl3mvr0ouv3srftr/96464443519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609005c8ba2b0---8280400147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamdard.com/hamdard/app/webroot/img/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ronox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcd22602ed---59866187246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/zewisokozoxiwipatusipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2e0f47627c3be735b2d4d27c5bd14e8/pipamisajoxomobejere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/6439694050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f8f93510e9---volitodixajesito.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_off0000ec04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC04 17752 bytes
SHA-256: 2f15bd949f7103b58e9e59be7c2431ad39c09c2ec5541201d2d1ae52b6c36554
font_01_sfnt_off00011a4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A4F 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 250e4810a77d5ec326ecbbb085f226e188bdc8a9fdaa74ede6a7f7eecd1d1f17
font_02_sfnt_off00013340.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13340 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1