Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8745eaa39a45dc93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-12 16:16:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 677c345ed79e1159f9cbe7e1119ae638 SHA-1: 48ef37e3cc4df03a56319660ef80edf8371238fe SHA-256: 8745eaa39a45dc930711964802ad265435df71a3140eaf3811d5647e5df25d23
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous links and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4a7b9a5e33515883fdcfa068b5384ff/29556109613.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/rijelimamekijanomos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinshi66.com/uploadfiles/files/vevawibodosamavomoluzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0ea23cee91---xuxotiwusikagopugebenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f9a38fc45034e937d3cd81d5fcbe445/tubuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/du6r9h670vmng5ron3lf3pnr92/33486678577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/27233293334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pieseautocomenzi.ro/userfiles/file/kovejojomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/gemorivebajelefoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b9d6478f7---89267853496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608704e0cc1e8---jodirozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/nemuselovutozijed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc6urhb31kkeu74t8r9kpltref/mutozurutitapisamazoxita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093596f0c8c8---vanezuduramezirulixirom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26003642542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b3f6e4a3a---93195828478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5258d2e5a54d760fdb0fa23f853597e3/31975983366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=fst+01+mcq+questions+and+answers+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7CE 16920 bytes
SHA-256: f39b4bfe2ca5dcfa5254e0773af8abb13517f60c3bf909da103f01a2cba5d92a
font_02_sfnt_off000123ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123EC 1780 bytes
SHA-256: ee6d8c25003eb2de61ee1fda640ec7b8e4605923364b71ee832b966c85f0f81c
font_03_sfnt_off00012c50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C50 11216 bytes
SHA-256: c13abde02556caa3ef7cccbba7ca43883c4067141ae10d15c503e79ff0b4d83d