Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5817bc2f874369e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-10 02:53:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: d5909f14f711d7b69e0bde5e09b020de SHA-1: 9a69d6726878d72195db0ee1188ee872c91f1636 SHA-256: 5817bc2f874369e22bc76dd8a5973b57a6143f19f10a39aefabb76c50ddaab62
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious payloads or phishing pages. The presence of multiple external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609160144c5a7---95262991153.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60dd6dc9e52e3e651f2787a5b5c839f6/50384524012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/18119220444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ronaldtan.nl/images/photo/4141418301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb97bd291d---nalinalifujerog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47cc149b495f104a5ba1753597a298b2/borinupafisut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29979d9e15---39687393818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210625062222_6r3otg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/06/17/file/20210617_095826_166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a63b82fd4---sexonul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57254c94d10f1484db3d77804873c2ef/xeguvowurawowunafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43274d63687b2ee6428f6864ad6d9070/wonomenuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95a4a08f24---57622138043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/velivemodesewuvijov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/babelunigezasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinside.pl/userfiles/file/14195987497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/259cfa903f57640fb9edc05c09c865dd/keziwaxopemutopog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emvgkdrjtc0inbv5ergpj7h42k/49861227978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rivepobozofoxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a3c86ae636---21816245756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvbjnshtjfpv3iv2lguauo1v2c/jiseguledopapusuxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/72940956032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/22922134334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/fofolutixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e09d0375d7e---32587004565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=mend+pet+wow+classicPDF 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_off0000f8b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110C8 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 948c1fc6cbbd136841eab21e7646b2b4599751909ebc100b4885e2a39910b2f2
font_02_sfnt_off000128c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C9 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 56c3db2169bdd48c53e23ec998821fa9831a5e0fee43d7b8050f413bfdab14fe