Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ce18ece7476b655…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 07:42:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: ac4da7954963599cc2c20793338a101a SHA-1: 9f22398e0a2c2eb59f7254acab8527bd62abe706 SHA-256: 9ce18ece7476b65536fd958edcd8d9de5fec12dcbf628328bd7531530e4c95f6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used to distribute further malicious content. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML classifier flagging strongly suggests malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to trick users into downloading and opening further malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://guides2alpes.org/uploads/file/vikawebizunaxopuxoja.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/780ddf40d83bdf2a55b8af5c6c1edf36/82061090812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21c9e56c7bca945d712aa7f0cecb415e/90179408353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b07b0a2300---simok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1c32bc5132---nigovezonalero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/xudekufupotixobatuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ed3a9ffc7---87891136142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf4435b9c3e---37612048440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f26f96b4601a465bdbe83266e3252465/95517848530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/tugorejejaxulap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0ec2b6196---13006388439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3e29b1eb58e50d5ee4092661f9e7b96/69325530319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9de91b911f9e54444da3f88557ed704/siratefirejamejoroki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/97151713835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/sedokupumaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remproekt-m.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34826377343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/13659227897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086728f90734---92666197875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/dekozevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflocops.org/clients/83264/File/sijeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a8d519cab---xepuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbcc4d72ff6---22565072178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+after+seriePDF 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_off00013595.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13595 10004 bytes
SHA-256: 9a4a5deb6e79ed86df44b5857a98eec4523f98bcfea63c1a9e5a0bc077880648
font_01_sfnt_off00014bea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BEA 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 22dd5d7a74a6eb2a0b7b1b62cd14e7d802922038de5468fe129302624ebfb6bc
font_02_sfnt_off00017893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17893 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1