Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86a4589670578b01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-07-12 16:15:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 1e11d2692653bede92f36e28fb2d0ea8 SHA-1: 49b389ef4a033b2b08e2d57c2d695d45c7e7ee5a SHA-256: 86a4589670578b015275202b7d738e939b5c1ce3ee59b1f29e73e65e6145de31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The primary goal appears to be SEO manipulation or directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3449d62a6fdbd04c1117d589901870f/91068607627.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hkacca.com/userfiles/55423995183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/49619891241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ebc2ddca9f4922872221f5d08d8ce3b/15176793887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/22034607727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/40197470239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cro3lqid4jlc6g68j8843frhf/titijaralegemokevolaguler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944880a9507---91496865252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenteriyaki.com/uploads/files/73789620219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.com/files/files/53870016260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202106181101287766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa057f3fbbe---84287625953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc3eb178227add4b2825e06c54b50cda/vizisosoxukaneje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3a258be9a---fexatonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffd4194aa121832c27ca66ba25f652df/nusudifuzowosuxesoruvolif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/wujejinularamediga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a051b06dd---regojirinimoron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prospekt-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63396766165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c99a289a0a---veginesadojom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/34185659870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=digital+systems+principles+and+applications+11th+editionPDF 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_off0000af46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF46 11128 bytes
SHA-256: be85f7f61524706e82249a13e7bba83aab1dc81f8a55b7fbf0b53e3a34268b58
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8EB 16208 bytes
SHA-256: 77e380737bf392724625f285f44087438742be7ec7630579de122af0bb9da8ae
font_02_sfnt_off0000f34b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF34B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1