Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9942e38c91aa658e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:20:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 4e555de97f0f74b44598e7dfc7e49c20 SHA-1: e8fbc58914b3f9a10695055d4a5bf6fdf6b1c511 SHA-256: 9942e38c91aa658e6ed9e4fc322dea1e8b27b264b71949e229207b58992a5c04
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on potentially compromised infrastructure strongly indicates a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5643de01bc---5597891260.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://newgrids.com/userfiles/file/1746076908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608213e49c517---vomipemosowuzuzorugalijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/bosasofewuputale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b3605fdee---papinagarimuxijajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumnicollegedelunion.org/clients/76066/File/22709062735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca7d14b9a7---38369413522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c7b19bfe2---8524188888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839568788c4---xenixavenikipamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/va4if6afm1u54goh0f5b10507q/towiluvadomufigimesazun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9rrhvgbvlncsid5snjpmakna9c/megovapidubakolagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/26781167437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b85cb912fe9709e06c6402dc7aa49527/51496529867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albertopizzetti.it/userfiles/files/42585103191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf8cdd64568---topefawuxojejefidani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dd983e0f10f8768fd374e29b56937a4/2441686380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/bolejejilof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/38136011019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-daily.jp/app/webroot/contents_img/files/vuzetikilukezoxubon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/17244766225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopabrang.com/images/files/siwepafuvek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///xigovuvoxarojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8458d1a2ed058c266fabf6073a29e3b2/vusubula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/ziwadibeduwiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e531bc8a07---5928400629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=ctet+2020+question+answerPDF 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_off0000f752.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF752 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F69 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 02d18c20044255f9203525683516e54ba51b22aac221f73dd9a3a06f117425ab
font_02_sfnt_off00012822.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12822 17760 bytes
SHA-256: ea409cfa3aa845b64ba95cd7f5e12650a67709580deabb8d411d80a8bb1a82f6