Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5648151fb16b2c6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:24:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 94dd348a8d7b330b4b3e737b4e74c546 SHA-1: 8e0af7ef713e027fe4b05f0110c3a1562e02c811 SHA-256: 5648151fb16b2c6acfc2c5cc5090835c102fe077806910dd8e824201460c05a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely leveraging a PDF exploit or social engineering.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889efeca950---muxatugonagimapera.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793ca0ed430---firupirixivukerig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/95861680812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/29038641128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609272da8193b---bomanudizib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/lebedebuweben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfae59a770---17113181305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/18196409279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/nefofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8527dcf24---95648042782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c4819a6fc---vomopurixen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emonncr5fjqru7td401kgiu906/2784439027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8d903fa4e---36865700340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833224cd251---13729229063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://border-inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/xalutuforapusejovolegor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d64813839cf---rexejerobirojapof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8kt0juhohes8vhrf791vevh57/30304085144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b9b4f1aef---digogotesogip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.com/contents//files/sutovufefav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072892ce5357---rixuxaxopinur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d48b27c4d---gubejorixonapige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/stke6vqjikuve40bnvib26bsdo/79387837798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55509451912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/zotulitaluxabelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normel.org/files/upload/file/98276357088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=collapse+of+constantinoplePDF 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_off0000ea65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001027c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1027C 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 8ae3797be972b14d847d2a206a322e9f4439ab5130838bb976b9ed15ae96c2d8
font_02_sfnt_off00011a34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A34 16456 bytes
SHA-256: 2ef4ffc3835eb5b293c6075ff4509c40b3351ede4179e6998f28442e4df4fbfc