Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87d59768a418d073…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 14:02:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: afd31d2d21904117d6caf1548ad85f86 SHA-1: 59231fa3cd940c6827cd9efbdbcda9a1382aa990 SHA-256: 87d59768a418d07310a24370a603f71a387422c41212b9f94a643862bad3871d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection names suggest a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://remproekt-m.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lubinotikiki.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/35692654133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/81749993985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609003265c987---32385433370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zebcom.in/userfiles/file/37234914940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--kprq5pvqklteonubj6c.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/19167893732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c36ea03af---50925438485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609450bcce959---sifupuwator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xoblates.com/clients/e/e0/e08cfb93fb97b00c28394d0532709dc9/File/72770691631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72787b7174f7df90442551eac21bebca/45586032890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ffbf7f29a---13509483508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/ruvuveriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8822bcd8ec769e7c59fe149f01c0b79f/44905886808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40f98ea14a---jikufetewupexabarakab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v72l9vglfncocu8ouiqimnnsl2/mowenixigeturibepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf5da15b4d---taraviwuxivawuzowabawav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc360ad841d---xumezatenosabidakozop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55dbbb6678744b04c5c800fe2ab6bb9a/41985958386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/50068905133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c3ce55cdfe1658d9b63ceb4f29772ea/85958995625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdefb2844a---12010073543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/selanuwidetus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fernandopelosini.it/userfiles/files/nowubojefivirofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdecb4ccfec6e059d532ee4c5fc814b4/vuluxusod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=well+defined+function+definitionPDF 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_off0000f635.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF635 18456 bytes
SHA-256: 54a98068fc0e5814a79a51b36c1271bbb3500b3e4f67a8276f2e25176d92823e
font_01_sfnt_off00012606.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12606 10132 bytes
SHA-256: 92e56606fe6056ca07b5b8145069bd4b85b199a0a70a90d371ab1f9c55beee56
font_02_sfnt_off00013cbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1