Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96759da1368804fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 18:28:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: a30da369727476c9df71b9c19745c529 SHA-1: 552041f09ff12fb4d9c74c27d5a686bef1b8d73e SHA-256: 96759da1368804fe6cd432433e54bb3ab9cec9b006bcb85f58c7585fecbb20ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead users to further malicious content or downloads. The presence of link farm heuristics and compromised CMS upload links reinforces this conclusion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://pensiuneavlasin.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1q03v7pgcrlm8l32rffm31qv2m/farizike.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/nivulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cebf7dc2dbabdb7ed3e1107f8ff9d831/ratifovegefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0df3b44d3ea8fbb264f15b98824ab825/85485727216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uosm1hdo9sopplnrnki3pd1gr1/pamujuvularagorukogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d4c40022e0520e2c4aae308e3224d40/5429915849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3tuu4fem4ot5o1fbdu1md5n3ev/kamofarilowavofupetileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac8bb2434a7aac4e35ba3e3e1f82046b/82767640223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/31893333217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1834033b4---89375643145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8gemndct5ai54gj5rq0pqqqn6/4872621336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/78586455438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/232aff6790303a47cdd8de77e84d1c2e/nenagofomitudajozade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087231e987d5---12504908564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marmaraisg.com/images_upload/files/mumobakerote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/repiguxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0979a954b6a05f353040941cf15ed256/sujijepowetemokas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/63390616476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botorka.ro/userfiles/file/88927279483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/lofivifuvosetolokokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e021f1b238---sexujazozaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e8364f4eaaf231f0c4437dc48a1a204/65154764814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/kagivuforurepulenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8925e6ec7---80042627139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfd18488c5f---pubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0cadeb4559ee4f56ebbecc0c1a3d1c2/17199506182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=choral+music+onlinePDF 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_off0000f6be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6BE 17880 bytes
SHA-256: ea1ecb80a011844baa27a0f3ca987c05fbb9b37cbc165f9c9d10cf88c7fbf4b6
font_01_sfnt_off000124e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124E2 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 6fe61438b4848c62d58b8a39fa118384ec7cfd36e2e65fd7854d7be07f5df403
font_02_sfnt_off00013cac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1