Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c231b542bd36890e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 08:14:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: fbcf68ab7aa877480bb581687732c5c3 SHA-1: 84831b9702900b3552fa215e73097f13c2489bab SHA-256: c231b542bd36890ec6691d377fa447e8809cb6dfacb42f0c5bc72ed3c749930b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, many of which host other PDF files. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ba49ea98806a6b077e6c0a1fa2eb3f3/funomotuxesizug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f6fad293a---jajivemulufurogujiwewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e8378b1d67c8ac42cf32926a58defc9/rijanapufifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/93992552730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gj3d7n3t8u4ajj2qre2egl4q2/68714284519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/xegor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a66ed7347---55822475181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0310d6707f071886d54a38cef36eb816/podog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b875e6858bbf3f2fcb115c459483bcbc/40709363828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bd21ba1a8c---43360504131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sr05rc7ooqf3svdr23i7095hc5/javad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984fde34bc2---pugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846c46a7612---61738056363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079448f1a860---zurojerurobegujepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.foundationofhope.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080915f59059---9245673646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/291504163813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5vprqbcb8g6m4dfenk8l78s6l3/35541724296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/96729145062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/7413048380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/90340333604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=green+sand+casting+processPDF 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_off0001715d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1715D 18760 bytes
SHA-256: ef32a8f7bf5c46e0d753df4fde5cbdb282ec8b081b1970f7f927e0b04577c8bc
font_01_sfnt_off0001a221.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A221 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 1a1e0af771b79a47c4e49a73a6359b35ac798a13b7c39754711fa4fcbada4aa1
font_02_sfnt_off0001ba91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BA91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1