Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9832f5c463756b90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:55:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: c571d7eaabafbc069f8bcee4a1206cc7 SHA-1: a270764ce2bdab80d3b867dfcf67d1e51fa2b942 SHA-256: 9832f5c463756b9074d152c6ed1e7d581427d2f9598f1146785087047e18d6b6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised WordPress sites and an IP address, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74820980006.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607addacd03fb---23799567437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a3bd6da9bc---2214428690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.com/userfiles/files/zururimapiritemilosev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d38f228a8---89914619153.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kgdkkj7j5pp333n64gjgl2cg02/kojerusakag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429031117604642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/woloxusuwolivixodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patp1ryb.ru/media/file/bubereduzikadogobesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0390d55ba---fifabiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d59cf9ea966141120c9d677eafb1265/22748238874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/94762199244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/juxowikogonabexuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowadalbyt.com/userfiles/files/66520887960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb67742793---vidodavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0687341c08---91781021975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/wakosarudobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togetherwewalkny.org/clients/2/24/2411cc079aa0f0d7fd57f81c6163ecfd/File/70508182914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/21301435684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cb26fff3a533533e514a781216ad616/19362577847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daob13ivffs2ein1a7ilkvblt7/28204857776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089685857428---safafabowefapudapofepila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aab345e98d---77346473036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=foxhole+court+seriesPDF 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_off0000f5c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010dde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DDE 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 3e2927b5cb66af27a4e101020922e6903c550517f393589c72a1e0b3be75c5d5
font_02_sfnt_off0001250b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1250B 17864 bytes
SHA-256: e8ebfde00ef2d90e57aeec86e5f49b7c53b2f32b39ebaf58a7c49da5369a8b2c