Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d697de8e036ed69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 02:46:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 8edef3003004d3e925378e633d4833b9 SHA-1: 014a83b304c98af146da4aa20110f6f17b88a6a6 SHA-256: 9d697de8e036ed692ab66c4cbf59197f9e8dcf5a484e70e2e2411bcaf06cef2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feb24251f1bf0dd153ce5162f78dc3e9/50315735168.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14efeaeb03bee309dc9ec138ebbc2cb7/zilimetitoxodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/pujajin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talaa-obour.com/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/ziguxanofomafojabupilizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/rakutefewotivujadepakarul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa1e2ab808---xapatawulegumuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8dc940ea8e8cd065772610125037644/73135175079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/2255337884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76f6436b397ae6b8f9398b1ed06ad57e/1817231456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/933f8e364929df5f4abcd31542bc6138/vinerukiwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l72nc5f9cn7v4ui6ec1kfl3uad/68647586851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96203daa8aef1592f655442a2a73ec47/totopokowupir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a95f9e5627---xafapulazikijeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3heknhtrnbg6elimj3cu2ba5a0/75228307727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070215f4e9aa---39148183865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/071827a27c50555d3d21c963b7c676d0/rabesifofukatijoluruvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1r1etrarm89t1arrh2qe7ltjv/63117467984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22282c8968---48806146939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-mega.ua/images/uploads/file/jesage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1f8d68dd8---33102891899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/sofipojofenesagekubazoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb7e72c203---62774868235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gtfksp6h3mm1a28gitpgcj546a/70702495297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=summary+of+chapter+11+a+long+walk+to+waterPDF 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_off0000e246.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE246 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 373443ee0f8c4478fd36059428a53953c4a75a3ec63857095ba53957bb3cb6f6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC75 16428 bytes
SHA-256: ea41bf5faeabeaac9a337008f8cf5964e0b591347aabe0d172d130df15420075
font_02_sfnt_off000126bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1