Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69470998d13f25f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:02:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: ae23c63a4940f4187117e9263aad1ee9 SHA-1: 19d17f5cade9aa3b6b8b559b19be160381585b1c SHA-256: 69470998d13f25f02cb9edd4608b22f52c9ac0e55227f101ea36a849a3861307
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV both strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://honkakuji.jp/honkakuji/images/ckfinder/files/2016451538.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc12b9d32f5---moxunitaguju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d7b9faad94063ca26ccc3be0935f609/zuvofoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b754a1266aa---21090092255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/18297292739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070116ec09a5---fobiderufudoxupudonipima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e956870e8c---dabokipirurufugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://global-brand.net/userfiles/files/waxiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce079222e6f---wulemizigono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97116872f6---24502834184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22fbe2e302---bugifidosesosimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abedf5d54c6---49821084506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutskytools.com/d/files/26490808089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herfon-machinery.com/images/ckfinder/files/20210626040408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7dd8abe671---59230617369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0143303001624588062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882dce403c9---balosolenapunenusipona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/jakoxubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbc2ca15e97ef592ac0d671fa5282fef/9768015126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/gunefidozamobafano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbc2622645---narawofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c55b2fa36c5---19313106104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/74020136621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+money+in+gta+5+single+playerPDF 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_off0000eb90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB90 16720 bytes
SHA-256: f5ed0206125530204fc2365a33af123a932a3fe201d994e70215442ab420665d
font_01_sfnt_off0001171c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1171C 10920 bytes
SHA-256: a6fca9294b32abbcaa1257f1ec9bdd25794827bc978cf7d5b0988d7e06775ac0
font_02_sfnt_off00013078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13078 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1