Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ad93852afb96c57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

301.9 KB Created: 2022-03-08 05:09:09 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-07-20
MD5: 81e14c4d443aef6be7dd9f4167253a11 SHA-1: bda4adce75cd9ef38abaaea5085dad13c6496ad7 SHA-256: 9ad93852afb96c57e77a629c602d6f31b61fd9af4c8ee9d8478c99b0f68e2d4e
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or SEO redirectors, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK' specifically indicates a lure for free downloads, which is a common phishing tactic. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7222

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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.
  • 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://kukubara.com/zdjecia/file/lefosaxutifazib.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://timavoshipsupply.it/userfiles/file/xajegewaduzijasujufokir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/90007402856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/kirawixevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hum639hb2-hh38.com/contents/files/75178258201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleksey-mihalchik.ru/upload/files/nobileju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16225c6f24f78a---96235237950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/nonaxajedosir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcastillotucentrotextil.com/imagenes/contenido/files/73017461429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e1f0190145008fb7f5d152e79cd5407/21217287373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viviapalermo.com/userfiles/files/86265167831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretsocietygroup.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/2643542647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1kouav80l16uu47aq968iqsf0/magawobovodigoxexeruboru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aventurinproject.tesztweboldal.com/uploads/files/gifixixufalulavoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-uklid.com/files/file/vimizinotawopuvuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpos.sk/data/files/tegibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/rezelepugamamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/tabaluzimojakufaxevabij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/57664482088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tristar-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26292297678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarant0g3l-turbo-h1t.com/contents/files/nerexobawubuvetevuluvize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://p-yanagase.gorakuou.net/blog/upimg/nowegedibebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d5ed2339b7bfeacaeb51007529a5b0e/24161448950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amis-simserhof.fr/kcfinder/upload/files/baxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozanetiket.com/TasarimAcarnet/serhali/upload/files/kugefewulav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lovig.co.za/XSRYdR1H?utm_term=rfid+and+gsm+based+attendance+system+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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off000448cf.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off000448cf.bin)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000448cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x448CF 16560 bytes
SHA-256: 924ad5cb737cfd9a34472b2046831991df4d3950e5f0d7b552a18309318c2ee9
font_01_sfnt_off00045fef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45FEF 10996 bytes
SHA-256: be0dfb7121f71d07e7f62d77018a7ede0a034d26177f1f02bea320c95cbba1e8
font_02_sfnt_off00047910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47910 18080 bytes
SHA-256: c73f585d1b44add9fc1db047b6edbf4d9362c68034f623441b88a8138e414a54