Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d31367267826169…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:05:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 4c15b3dd54e97f6dc30fba1677c03dea SHA-1: 3a26cba99f0a83445b7dd2ab063282a4dd02d7f8 SHA-256: 9d31367267826169497a8b2cab28e815a22c643dcb5fdc2108bb8bf572bffd24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters indicate a deliberate effort to direct users to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=transform+array+to+object+javascript PDF link annotation
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/46388679265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab8804b25d---85148674957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/017ba5e330c7f1c5c384571f73f186dc/kevopogojen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ed817ac62cea61b4907fa4376bfa64e/tumalomorolagisajoxujife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df686f14d914b0b1857be6be1ec1a54e/rujusamususesobiwekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27vblf01rmrkp25l2h828tqjl2/23803778718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faceless.me/userfiles/files/68978741363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qo000uc1vrd5g89h75gt7f50k7/tepisutuzejusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/1974973083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e94a7cc73---28709715149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c695743ff1---64535710929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/panotarorovimofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3f9f9ba33---gedaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/60161457324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hjtech.org/admin/upfile/file/mupitavojizopijukawesoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a734d19ce---19080495174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609893cbb9374---67254923347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rffv7gkth1e5jp1kadjhfa8ns3/gerulufuxufuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898e70945c8---vaweledoxarakij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/73823502326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/571630020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jafum82l4ucsrje9u034v7kfb2/30604052152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5cbe6cf86f---dubawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af83bd4eaa5---79843152502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f2e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010afb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AFB 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 7577823ef9ae096022927e434e2b7f19b5fd0a802cf0759d352072d914e176a6
font_02_sfnt_off00012469.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12469 18360 bytes
SHA-256: 92887301f03453e7c27c065ce73d7ca81238e5a7a4cfa8c86c174302a12bca42