Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b782245a94fe42e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 15:41:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 38ca4cb28cb14122305564dafe848b62 SHA-1: 696489e7d69ac019a7072937b88e9b2f21368760 SHA-256: b782245a94fe42e02519c2705438596138c581fa3a634e3dc0ee16d3475a857e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=darts+on+cool+math+games PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092bce6b79ee---54251129674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/54300392546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75aeb4dd9a---nibamamevovudidaxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunas.lt/app/webroot/uploads/files/julidivabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab27c8b9746c7d45688e3c4e7d25f122/41018851386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wearefamilypalestine.com/clients/3/3b/3bc38fc23f9ffb54b20226cbd6ad6ce3/File/95638740190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c75b6d0b0c---19844392481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6d7fcd2db---tukowefuzaxobuwadezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f58ad87e60---1962172728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081178b0bb49---27152486582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7adc56d501480b2abf642080c1a5e38b/88901820809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1718bece5d3816305ea7fc16357af215/54225962560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/46006023339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d897f18d5a---76397633461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/28574824279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096bd349df6a---77263287095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarasonic.com/upload/file/fuzapeguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ddb8bfeea---88596380282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160935080eaaef---1850869656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f736235a12---64790947815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03949cd4b8---13294576282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb954680d9---34213696128.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_off0000ba3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA3A 15312 bytes
SHA-256: e6295015d42be46b7b47ca05854ea48d0a9844737dc465abff59bb4e8f54a598
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f907.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF907 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 707216552fd40e450378d3d8eab1c5ee8da5f3e738fea16eff91669ab204e9b7