Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf1465a6d63d8414…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:56:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 1efd7aed724199e9fd6db7315cebfddd SHA-1: be16a1d7d5953b4e2ff197b94370eb54614c95c9 SHA-256: bf1465a6d63d8414928ea9d6e5acec6da845f0e7cf43cc3751d7ef9476c70780
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and link farms, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and numerous URLs are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anderson+taxonomy+ppt PDF link annotation
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2962hva3ltu8to1gh87pbbf0a5/47302067378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/6783008908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caedc7e8d89---seragaboxinoratobidigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5daa5fc64e5d7d22b3b3d96d1b114b7/jaladokanajajafanif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eda240dd0120ed5a0412c9963fd8c7d/jarurizanedatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents//files/vukuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e53f735eba129a301bae9caa2ffff3a/75821135406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2d66ef6e3---vomuvugofatefonodeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2c1ec8d4a---titagokixarivewoxexada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6ad979428---18304864186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/mefuderinedimerolitomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephlillianmorrisfamily.com/clients/59960/File/87150732574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608427b13c6d1---13585955715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rs3do4dbvtlhl7aqfvom9rfge7/tegufedigitom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/kowiririrama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d3e2e022be910d479095de4e4a4b416/9251929274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609402bb86546---mifozoruvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4346c65981c579b39a65898e8fa0baa/sipugugepojapoxebuxizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rl658h4db9v948su63pr6sg053/koremixisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/34430718895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943f2f3ddcc---lugipinodawukuwodibule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/319394456f84a5ed5605e3b72147ab72/45731556683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/752eedea314a73e5714024bec7cc1f4b/mibetizulalukezuxen.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_off0000f48b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF48B 17024 bytes
SHA-256: 06a86edfe81c64f4ebe44e16b97c88274d44db2977cbf73e407d13d3e0802d16
font_01_sfnt_off0001209f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1209F 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 44dfa5134bdcb367c7de5cfcc9c013948cba8268bbb32c243e60a0ed7293fdb2
font_02_sfnt_off000138f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1