Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57f97635a3162a1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 00:33:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: f2fc4834c15907c78670fe44e909b4f5 SHA-1: 9d10aab991803d9d2d59d0d0ed91a29a2cd25cbd SHA-256: 57f97635a3162a1faf14a401ffb675a326ba4233c2e6673f0015c67c67326a8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest an attempt to deliver a payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+clove+of+garlic+is+how+much+minced PDF link annotation
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b51095c38d---47550221912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a0df77b349834179a130e75793a15a1/liromadawimexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e322fbb9d6---2936105946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charqueadaboavista.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8302df3422ae2f6bc39e7e53541b1e/83866607961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhsclassof63.com/clients/c/c8/c8cc7cee7579ddcd469b669c0eb172d8/File/98496609580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cristal-in.fr/userfiles/file/60943489159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskenecologie.nl/files/59400802296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heuresromantiques.com/upload/files/91290229306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af1aaceti4l10n4uoq01ghpfd2/39835432582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodavico.eu/userfiles/files/4776913053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1959.com/clients/51168/File/sajekarabojubuludizunox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/diwijenexokogaxapugokaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/1904729750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25810572683999c22f598bffdf9a7358/36393212704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e483ad7bbb---78662674265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/luvejuvalediwufidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardarnoldalumni.com/clients/a/ad/ad1dcfa6f69ac51e3fe6bec18f6cf6d6/File/72554412507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ot8oa9b4a2qaldpni3qjgun02/39272467808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cestovni-postylka.eu/userfiles/file/46743256757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fqdfja59slgu297ksnj6bh2j6/ximidugopanofure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e5b96b441a5ec81a32d4f5afc352265/fufef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d10e9aec127d593d486ddbf3e960cd7/16454247797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898e8551a37---vomodiseboboxibosevud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/55166287148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-15/20210515154702866575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/86737049537.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_off00010b9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B9D 16704 bytes
SHA-256: b3dc03d03fb6413994286f7eca3b97c83856ecc911164774011e52f87878ebf0
font_01_sfnt_off000136ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014ee5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EE5 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 86dc60e7e9aab63e83499ceb25c837e118b4eb6a28bc36eddc1b5eeea358ff32