Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 642caa1ff925c1f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:33:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: d4cf9fdec777efb83086c93151948a4f SHA-1: 600772763f8d2559133c49ac0fd00e58863332dc SHA-256: 642caa1ff925c1f5b0804668688551da5a3a3ef6442388b4f7706785175c087e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, detecting it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain metadata from the wkhtmltopdf tool rather than user-readable content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t89di7rnusi3eho41ut691nh1k/neviwaxasikivedewima.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/57653248161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e477e6ed8aaeaa1aa563f34e160d458f/16972390693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszberles.hu/files/files/zogoruwemukiroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/khtte9gv8a5iq7im3ourfvheds/44502932482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/78567737305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60b01c6dbb08f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipsbricksalumni.com/clients/56168/File/rogipurodukexewexesalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9a9c6ce8a---zivopapamanij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/34342450872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b97220f447---zofuvezeden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d49ce4768b30ac20acb42c74fc83535a/97209961187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/35942443999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bmtv5g49u6es2ovfmoaarrmgr/32068819212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad956a67f02---92458634036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3e201a7b204f9568401debf5158559c/78512840580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210606092404330046635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/jizofirivero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f76795d75878ae0399fbccfb3ad54cf/sixatitemetilokomagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d46cea1065---lumetufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0396a3151da38d748e116c6153879e7a/galekixavujoloxupaveduxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/losewexuperabutumatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cairparavel.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/80081017189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19839ca5bda0e28292e30699068e3dc6/lobikimikanadubakoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91cb262f55---10257134351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/65359218149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=pretty+little+liars+streaming+piratestreamingPDF 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_off0000eec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D3 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 70ed009f6cfa6d56baabbd1dc5caa5d0ef69441483045e04ec1b768271d88c3d
font_02_sfnt_off00013556.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13556 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 516e642e66dc15b49cf7548437dce2339bf350bf330724b2d4413e3d9c9da3ae