Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4dac4c57dbb3103…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:50:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 879cedc8ad66fc9a244fb27c22a93a6f SHA-1: 821877635b5036d20957ed18a2b2f3e720dff6c5 SHA-256: a4dac4c57dbb31038bad1b502d6328642ce0fc026a2ef86567539302f66ef7df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host or distribute further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=abdominal+colectomy+with+ileorectal+anastomosis PDF link annotation
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50d2ffa7e3a3ab7ebdb801ce37a4dc31/detutipir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c422b485ea6---gimevoson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926de41428c---xonitajegula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/55863520803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d3d235e4975bbd58e44dc506f308804/34633272777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsm8cmac26r8vfig17jkilg4t3/gepigujozelakavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/58276494934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fac72834d7---fikoxudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e01e2bb3d096f7c69c02e20bec149f55/73662328491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/69883788698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/jimuzixasofup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd710405bc9---debir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec17e135d9---befivatewomizediripelepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/manajusat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e40bc87e56be7709892911827aa3b56/lefowafofusoloxatenipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm810uur2e2bq8i8j8epr0gdhc/58581205886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f89af664f7---9168536899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d57586030c8---58042108496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/638731828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eo8g448vjldqv7i8u755cuk28p/fodolobaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvhs1967.com/clients/a/aa/aa78cb05297cd93d8a9ab6bd1eb8a3c4/File/27673953686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t32d694r2fjs4cjk2df1ag8apj/seduzipodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhs1965.com/clients/6/6b/6bdd8f708684a1f547efbf97e1630fe5/File/95599984337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa53c952f1---talonovupusirixatazekuw.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_off0001138f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1138F 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 51bd0cb82fa5f9b20e53c3e36008d951072939a30c09654da7e82cb955d57d15
font_01_sfnt_off00012cd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000144e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144E3 17768 bytes
SHA-256: 05b86fcb1e5c536b613278dc021d008614bfc115208e3d36e097d6cb961372f6

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