Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59daf3728f4649a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB Created: 2021-07-04 21:30:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 93ebc6f2eadb0f68bb6990d4b7cb898f SHA-1: 643745b5e1d60deeb6216ec29d4aafff1391af9e SHA-256: 59daf3728f4649a0b6bd57c68ec3b28995ce51bbfdb7aada3b3eb637e1d65e5b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards an attempt to exploit users by directing them to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/3341533341.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ff10d6ed9---55592110319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607950a5495a0---35184471918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/lirosorefura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitjaya.com/contents//files/70535401131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9072874516850a203f2df517397e738/34924997674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d07951dd636---32572794556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72eeca8c84a979d8f58b6408e1678576/71760975435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609747079c2af---66741976138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/122ffaeea332defead87c335ec63f411/tukulijaxigajunojadaxobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jodosuxigez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benjamin1908.com/clients/f/f4/f4560e3fe432b95d15e234f900dec36a/File/37268878704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclambaohiem24h.com/upload/files/63338260678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/zobafet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/4141054820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meandnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35281624333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b00d19924---posukigizamivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4f237d77b---moxonotafilavimaluzar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwlpsalisbury.com/uploads/files/siliful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.buildingmalawi.com/images/uploaded/documents/gubitexuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4pkqt8jl5iu9ktkop6mudbf85/fisuviromala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6d4632326---97234848117.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/85901235698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4aba7cc7cdea7420cb1ef8909f3a4d9/14822350138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795ebb099a5---zoribizebabotidasufatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=this+kind+of+cell+has+a+large+central+vacuole+and+a+cell+wallPDF 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_off00011c6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13480 17164 bytes
SHA-256: c423359e8ac5f4dcfe63d5d36e23a6d36492f4e25fe00e9664e13c73dcba8e07
font_02_sfnt_off00016144.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16144 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 566e3403e68b8f818ee510ac4a502e905aac9d7810b1059a1a6918ecc3552274