Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3b239ba99ba729d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:12:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 2d37d067405d67d71c6f61552dc044d8 SHA-1: 1522f617022f86a8f85f5c92fdceec9782a4180f SHA-256: a3b239ba99ba729d4be7bb6f235c1032b93ee3392e86830c504c88c279d8c479
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The malformed stream length heuristic indicates potential exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=iadc+drilling+manual+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://nanosoft.mn/images/content/File/gilas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallapietamarchisio.it/userfiles/files/zedak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krossinkeuka.org/clients/c/c6/c64aa726effa6776341672ea469011e7/File/sapipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dca37d740f3fc170493c8c71e75fa9a0/81077203976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiampelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07a05c95559852b439c7651662cd458a/8853910132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ratchadatitan.com/UserFiles/File/lenixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/55937429654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topas.lt/userfiles/file/61576594991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/78353709756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d479a7c453---29995527950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/985c63811a91148a881103e1f5d00237/potajeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomnuocebara.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/14167129618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100f017908fb---vodoloxexesoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/95762040782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af87f98f69a---28794382911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/vubusimuzodape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/dojomubejobataragexewusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://022-web.cn/uploadfile/file/20210902043648195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740efa154c4---61864002402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dde9dfab5d9---lalonowigovuluzerureme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ghc22cjvsdl86ijruo86kl7u4/mubamurava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/sekilozigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rghsalumni.com/clients/82979/File/49760119879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzmzwl.com/Uploadfiles/files/jufigisefukamevej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebab995027---gikimujafudazovavavop.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_off0000c1e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1E1 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 8d25fc177748ebe3a8416a12a10cdc183f8a8d036c9d9943da10d144b81cd46c
font_01_sfnt_off0000da98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA98 17636 bytes
SHA-256: b204d4168e4c817d2152dc23d1fba186392a3902fc53ce7ea6e902b4453f21ca
font_02_sfnt_off00010812.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10812 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1