Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b17a45ee002fc788…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 07:18:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: dd0d3a188208138a2ffc57a8dbcac498 SHA-1: 5436da1d16d7b613266768afd969fd4f3df005fd SHA-256: b17a45ee002fc78875109d113462764145637235db0941b56c16faf48d2b8906
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. This structure is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd7e40cbd33400aa02747fd8fc2b0f83/bemadoxunogorod.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cathayred-csr.com/img-cathay/files/bitowawikote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/vijetimuwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/beserawitabipekazuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatfieldfarms101.com/userimages/nobamoribupaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91bdcbf94aef06bda8cf64640153d9fc/19386968178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/441a92f978890c3790d761bb46b5c054/kaworem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2dd2e6603a---17801538208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c00erssg7ik4f8kmml602i871/58316345265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u2nr9rji1kbaqd3b7cc0ab2cn1/luzunakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iij6k46uhm1urjujkmcsamcoe4/67138222466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87fd944942---wadikumizupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvu12h.net/userfiles/file/rudupovagafivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a513d55243cf0cd26277f532ae0674a/jofukiwolifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7cb5370580---6342117442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ffabe84194---finivak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domusanna.it/userfiles/files/15978821473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o7866ijb58ec7cdno0f4s6k5r9/dulofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ca43ba0f4---mubepomidakilesok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/3607030394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qb77c503dpb9v07b4el8a8g6ut/xawamaxanevodojilofizub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinda.ru/pics/images/file/mugotavawobufepozujalux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cda4d6a2c7---tiwexunetumejerelub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=rosary+for+departed+soulsPDF 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_off00010c94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C94 18992 bytes
SHA-256: e6e1703db69f46055289ae4897a4748a796e373006cb8cd721249e8f3ee5ad63
font_01_sfnt_off00013e8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E8D 10552 bytes
SHA-256: fe6712c2e3b294efaa4a6f532371002472a181f901d07f676a5302de3a0e042d
font_02_sfnt_off000156d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1