Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d4841e49ae03377…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 17:59:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 543f3b9dbaa95286561f119edf6ac4af SHA-1: b750dce67e71a98e4456a9ecb901ca12cc6eee88 SHA-256: 9d4841e49ae03377dc2b9cb5cf32fff747c14e50c97077844a571c2c0e25de8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple links on potentially disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://anyimaker.com/upload/users/files/jubabiwugofozukisiki.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c83108eca4---pegato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/29676572265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad25rtpdije04c8ti7f05i9h8a/84510127754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/72825407803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nho4303am5sqtooc2p02k1fq6/15885087056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aet3jp2fqeca9lkjae9gavvrq0/naxudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/48234868159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/temf775cer445glekoi4d8hi41/19040417419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b684b9c9cf241a99ca5bbfb158b713e7/bupoduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3350b5a98b49b05c94344073bde913a/venasinarijim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7e555ab82---64840491116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chauphongasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4pi9cgpcfq6kimbl984g0djrp/vivelezaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b8106420760e8299e1c4d6be2e8ce4f/bususam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhferry.com/data/fckeditor/file///79548350489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913b32a9713---3766526953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/kitam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/21511556602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/42699711041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e78ebdffce---lurabugawavadog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800cdd78b58---32073725489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=doctorate+in+divinityPDF 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_off0000f498.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF498 16700 bytes
SHA-256: 4445b86b4f7fb577dfc6d4bb1e58ca814a18802dd60de251f7165af6ee4ade13
font_01_sfnt_off0001202b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1202B 10332 bytes
SHA-256: b88c66a107a90ab3cf22d928445208eb009ba39819b5441eadfe1dd9d9ec5f1f
font_02_sfnt_off00013796.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13796 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1