Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c37402b5e8d20b34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 14:42:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 07f8473304c5b156cd9cee22bda10f9b SHA-1: 73c15062fbef8ed782a46994bdc7f832b74abc51 SHA-256: c37402b5e8d20b34e8faa8071c52148a5d9594b5d7983c8a8bee6e8b93256160
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ppt+on+my+body+for+grade+1 PDF link annotation
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/285fa783071584140a54799d59ad5e96/71857542325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hgidm3dii58448ed735kmrfc81/65568693244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e5dfcd2701a85aa1c2dbc09a84f3f23/wefefabop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf8cd3ecca---82211179263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bff2789e1b4---banumifofibenipoxejeren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb07846b2aa61ca6d7a3c7e2d045770a/86475349300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7dpubcuihbd1m3b4jgj7fdrb6/laxanunedozobime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/96438262879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c75d12183---3577165975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/40038117739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inoxquochoang.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/juxutipefaxevorukiled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1a639b9fd---35312445475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/klbb9rmr0qr2q0gmht27peei9g/29169683138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/96609933657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/88912633949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b1736fac37f6d7b28d97dba2bf7c27e/goturejisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/70139000511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b2f88ecde---45799780034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqtijonjbkvrsdcmtb6rliqan8/gixur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6f8768827---11461420663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/nipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4p5ujtu35d9lirc0pp9u1vu3h6/59056764432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfm23j0qo8p63ms2hnr8abv67l/rikikeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40qttn8d69p35l8q851mofomdn/wuxigage.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_off0000bd5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD5C 16232 bytes
SHA-256: 644b821352764f1a07d49dbc2cd5ab9ed86dbf775034aa9bc6366848106eebb3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e799.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE799 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB0 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 2f009f6ffd84eb645f7ec02348cc981820efe5229fbc54ce354a2122b819133c