Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad31444ccd04c83c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 13:38:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: f7915de0649c8f58aafed5ecc5195624 SHA-1: 501fda5619a04026ca466c55a65f8d259ca6b8e0 SHA-256: ad31444ccd04c83c675a661119344e91e3a988b47a6170813b8a21376868c6dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to facilitate phishing attacks or distribute further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests this is the primary function of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=diet+chart+for+weight+loss+for+female+in+bengali PDF link annotation
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/23285368399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4migf4hrqq6sjlkedn49l16v6/gojokujepetelizirad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608290a410318---55474838092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/lowejipotobafaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/40825022480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/9117192872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dc9e31d3f643a5581c6bec843223161/61718986919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/gaduwikufulajiwunirafilib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb0afdc64d5---86533571572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fj1k7aps70lnrjvn57b12ealt4/nenalemawuliber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e988a0c396c5a40853263a7cfd5e145/jodofise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.haievent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drhrp87ong9kkibh983otvs3ir/13206164888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/sudafogezimakepogibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvj8o5702554drj74l20raa4e0/81910834820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3b9d1216bc---vojerakexamenatikajake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1982thsreunion.com/clients/a/a8/a85c6617a93da1462bf6c3e7dda9c043/File/zuxopamopiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861fa808967---18190247473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cec265af8a34a5b1d41e987d786ae89/xesupudosekedunumekuvemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb407da947---xetevulotupasejemejawobux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/35665490625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8da528fc6---kukiderinerojiwaxasexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawa757.com/uploads/files/romuduxite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medlineplus.gov/diets.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://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_off0000efa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA0 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 7bf50c8ad6ff9892070b4b3f81b210d1d3a8a865de6484a9b6c688a55f54c4ab
font_01_sfnt_off0001091f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1091F 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 3533151275c665e7266b47e51fd6a02c44bdfc9e4dde166640f673a5cd22fbf0
font_02_sfnt_off00013501.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13501 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1