Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 999816a1f55b7b30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:56:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: bf8cb6f4e0b3e9ce0ca55a5da2628d90 SHA-1: b38cd63cdbc0d89b896a1920b823eb156b27058c SHA-256: 999816a1f55b7b30219f6d6c7bbbbde9de97a1830b1e33271d8f5ae5999b1fac
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 phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host or redirect to malicious content. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage further supports its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c1f05d980---wowufugobojuvut.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hrk44cp1bag568e1b9d1uuq6c2/kaduzurizawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/dufimiwawirewinuvomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asap-recruitment.net/upload/file/597670479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/68174931533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08ovq0ju5adlorbm3p6ni345u2/8628228900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3b9b4187c---resufowifanetoxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/fosulalamapifojikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/jabekegenazedemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simmsfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/98/98d47f1658d09d39d77ba56043454c9c/File/22973412460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/97665626751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/xelanuxilolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15801bbcd355dd0dc89c3b0578c69c60/wagaginodotawigonetofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a724c07e91---53528676490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c7b79f0df---zanozakevasizisavawepal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/85846081804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudrun.com/home/mud/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53561537267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d02997d465d---turareguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2njndqgs79vquhb6d4ko3gvrk4/71144505517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/20273480139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbf1ed55d8---jomimekem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e09a728a780150f57ae6010f744116b/nomejudeferutesuzupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3e036c961---nowovega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adae1a4eca7---fapil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754e5e19ea3---74217610134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=international+poetry+dayPDF 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_off00011a5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13271 18240 bytes
SHA-256: cf4d1998b3ea1da2dd08ddc8dd9afe62a4392495b58f1b15ef526f6dc1b888bb
font_02_sfnt_off00016214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16214 10284 bytes
SHA-256: d0741f6d4014b2468746f1a58ab8c6d1f6d705de63854b468cd07919badc30b9