Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a34764c5522044d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-13 03:05:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 0a50759894e0e284335136049a92001c SHA-1: 9b8ff6fcb3ff0c30aa25721145f11d16a6119bd9 SHA-256: a34764c5522044d76ccf1216e2103b32f781509dc0b9f66e2d66f6332c233608
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a date, suggesting it may be a generated document used in a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=in+the+garden+of+shadows PDF link annotation
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/382738941e3601d28045849d5daf27d3/79290617597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modellszerviz.hu/userfiles/file/losaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/152d4019e3128bf4f1b5dd95e27acd15/66746933817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b966434f6---nogegirumedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.vn/user-/files/pofaregexisuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/47573505990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16fba754634b11b062f331cfb99fa5ed/rikosekovaseluxitez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/suzuluvozilonigezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h48tvh6cn2h9fhs4j17r07kp2c/wudixanavetovape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e02214ffca25ad05966c588e4aef25d9/tepowosemevejepinix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dur6a094udgot7d00pp2kmukea/33987659127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hgupj75e4q9ht2pcq5lteu5btq/fumulelogijolenikuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterreducer.cn/d/files/wokugegaded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j999p49jphaop7qbh09oakfnr6/88057163585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606df75b7e101---kurevomurari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011342.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11342 5168 bytes
SHA-256: 68ae2f47bcfa89f7c657175f246acafb8fd62d2edc828dfcb1f0f968e38af222
font_01_sfnt_off000124e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124E7 10584 bytes
SHA-256: b3e807bd5c125b1ccec487c4a2f14b657966e31c81b56d1666ba8cf1117de750