Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9ab8ff79cecf5e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 03:18:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 7050acaa9c4a462f8d763f7d12517b1b SHA-1: 43eb2f817582fe6c55f4e82096ee740c469687b3 SHA-256: c9ab8ff79cecf5e8df964b6cd6aef25aa9984fd7c83489559ce417a0a69bc43f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a link farm designed for SEO manipulation, and the presence of 'utm_term=crack+nordvpn+android' in one URL suggests a lure for cracked software. ClamAV also detected this file as a phishing trojan.

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://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ab0328bb7---salurudikubudojolajufa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents/files/47455225852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/77262623999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f472da6de---niwomoxajutobuzowumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roocenter.ru/upload/file/gukokidutaribokuboruwaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/83755255129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtestbd.com/assets/uploads/files/15594091805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irepairplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/91141099307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/gebexaraseriwitoporulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambalatender.com/upload/files/walexewimipefesixufozenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/zapesokagobesasesotomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbellevuepalermo.com/userfiles/files/64963961368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islaminkiel.de/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/manuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testsitehq.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/34101160903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307ef31f2e5---jelijonevirikada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundai-dongdo.vn/images/files/34077737259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesarrodarte.com/userfiles/file/fimufetisajusowafoxepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130babf83bb2---25439277567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weborder.cloud/userfiles/file///megawusipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infoegrafica.com/userfiles/files/13923694665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sukhonthip.com/file_media/file_image/file/72311325483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142c24673d6f---37862772624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umutisi.com/umut/upload/files/31052880431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vsrru.ru/userfiles/file/vutebif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=crack+nordvpn+androidPDF 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_off0000b237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB237 16444 bytes
SHA-256: a1ca712c6f1eb50c5c4b04e318d576d1f274e305fea63a12ba0beeb89b0a6bcf
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F0 10252 bytes
SHA-256: d78c9529b40842b307457263dfc926a63d6a312e4a34d474bb45852e2cd9bb97