Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8993a3e664c3ad7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-06-06 09:37:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 53923adbfc27b16382d733e6edd7594e SHA-1: 54f08f2fbd890c0483283be0dc362ae4624e04c2 SHA-256: 8993a3e664c3ad7c277304b00f7b3df70ba07892b8faa33e146ace1319dc6ece
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that likely lead to phishing sites or further malware downloads. The document body, though partially garbled, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool sometimes used to create malicious PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=exercice+de+math+cm1+multiplication+pos%25C3%25A9e PDF link annotation
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa9d329530---80738488017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd004ab8cd27bae0cc83a250856bf90/29808408623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/25246219978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210531210537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1959.com/clients/51168/File/24395744375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/88403102396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d8fee69746---mekinaviponelajukisewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8550e0ea15580f659379240e2fa2fc8/pibelaporikigorubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944f13b52b6---58792094978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608477bd16c05---daguloga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c90da5f6ef---59087416516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/bevixixabosuvawuwigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf26c7c659---90826209600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75eeb7cc0479115a6651fb771386bce0/xowadikorim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/pafoduxiforubivesepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bf6521816819a34613e9818efa89dfd/70703276644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD3F 5532 bytes
SHA-256: 89f6fc3cafcd697ff09e271a2da2f99e235ce3c343475ca5320ed36913913dcd
font_01_sfnt_off00010fa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA6 13328 bytes
SHA-256: f3007a22f059ad33821160ec20fbe55d11e1f0ead63c24b724c43c167d07f39c