Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1f3b0853eda24bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-07-22 13:53:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 29efc4d8af8e9f70c26d56a532789e6e SHA-1: 6bfc8143adc6b656ac51922a7617b2e91e3d4dac SHA-256: a1f3b0853eda24bdf4868549a5efce02e74bec9aa03af64e47d3d589219dadbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly show a pattern of directing users to potentially harmful external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://btcauction.vn/hinhanh/file/92827124671.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e181b5fbb4---sofigonotig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideatity.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55829837419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/32883612440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/48452183663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taverolamivaboga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personnelcle.com/userfiles/file/jinakifufoxogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a58d93a3730324bab746f38323ee307c/jigudewos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a17d0d3d1---27840710234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/34473297359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f410da924f---mebijorixele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cff521f33e2---durotediwolemojolareful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e0e8a69d1---37679615786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/napuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/45973068986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/famosidoludobunomepaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvlap3l8e6rvotko844vmgkb56/77474065605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1efdbe58f---rorabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.de/eros/userfiles/file/wujiroxifafemegirixegone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/4420840659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075abc8f1d78---93556643912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-kitchen.ru/files/files/sidet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/58240759042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7abc5cc439---23585609498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cd429ea20---82126408056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=neet+questions+and+answers+biologyPDF 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_off0001003a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1003A 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 3cbd51ce4f1c0ee26713820e058a3c26970885257d00a8f6b309a7e9900d7a35
font_01_sfnt_off0001196a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1196A 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 0a997f7de7c7f26c1d44622cdd25590fe238e2ffa552b7da06cf5fda1fb64b25
font_02_sfnt_off000145c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1