Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9104c098ea964c40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 12:00:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 4d803384d4cdb5754ded91696f1f9fad SHA-1: ec971e46f5dca408bde5d7e777898037dd4dbf63 SHA-256: 9104c098ea964c40d4882db6fb3ce8291cd2419a52b94e36ab1bcf64c9ed25fa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. The sample also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host or distribute malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/relepuzavoreda.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080975699f58---xasiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ead32973a3---mopodexinuxitoxagom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f307a60da1---pesabevibapazekujipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b8ef3fb1a---pojupenigakevalalef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3c6689674821ef91c1a644f8e810de9/pawasuzatomitipinuledek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webdulich.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97908513860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3fdbdd759---leworamaxipoxegavujufepab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8486a74132---42409307001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/975420bfc49c24fe6b4b4759de26f631/81422162014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5b488570f46b180f790122aa069ba52/gazilotano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/22429409220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8343124aa1---dulevevamerawoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/68134056800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3mml33aal36guuguuemcu3dqsd/gasaxaliva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7de7n4kp75f0659b9kpncfv9e4/rupasumezototujakoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/25150867537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4eaf805d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/481405024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufglnumeqb4ob52e63bcl6ne31/xaradelajiveva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e550c22f9a468a921f5e9df593285bf/rigoxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dlh3rq7ep9p3pa43vqobb0c9m/79517049361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78e68b0780---24102751216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=brownian+motion+and+stochastic+calculus+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_off0000c8d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D0 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 0662154301edc931b5b60256bfb8bf644f7f0cac07714f32c0a551c30001cc0d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE237 17736 bytes
SHA-256: bf3f0732bca4bad4e61f77470f9d2f89505ca2cd0e69033fe49205e855aa838a
font_02_sfnt_off00011032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11032 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001283f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1283F 1700 bytes
SHA-256: 15171638d69c9281a983de8a04f8d213e5ed86d33053034f6aa0dd130c4010d8