Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca31ed3322d2d6e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-16 03:42:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 9dbeb9a239ebac50ceea5a575dea8bce SHA-1: da0bcd06d7ac896abdc5ed2bac6e3c76d80a62ee SHA-256: ca31ed3322d2d6e150977687b71b5e0792718b50204158ab5ec9ec8c9fe4b22b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of external URIs point towards a common technique for delivering second-stage payloads.

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pulp+fiction+screenplay PDF link annotation
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/149d495b151b9e076dc41ea9ab14bf99/tuxebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f07810485ed---tuguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c22d9e73d0---96575409949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltke4723t18rpgsv6l4ga4efs7/dujimabinito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be6490335f0a1f2d9368c14274f6e259/93308804498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3646af593---vegixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fab91338bf---pemodopegijifikoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chhsclassof64.com/clients/b/b2/b21d6454c74b38f294a67049e63db9d7/File/bedajirozikulavixireku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngusacdon.com/upload/files/49578747097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8ee79a83c---kajenomanagomamubizotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maduraigarlandshop.com/userfiles/file/sumijunisuwivanofiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malverne69.com/clients/a/a7/a743c233813d1a1dbf5c38c484d85cdc/File/jusavabedojurotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hu/files/74986283057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a9d3419156707a60b7f29e94188d858/zegumuriponigike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30b2b8b1dcf04a038f9838d9cb54ac89/dedur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/kagimulizomof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607076086f06a---vujefasubemewuketizeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d9c86c7c6---11608366992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e31e4ea796b---mutuxebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa005099dc---14086373088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12b266354b4760228cbf1bc60c4af18f/pipigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/668fb58893326314ba51767536db4647/91108243705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/53849543142.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_off0000f0c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C1 17816 bytes
SHA-256: 74cfc2d911e38a02901505dd85d4f77ef8a8e83834c167f553952db37dcc1930
font_01_sfnt_off00011f6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013785.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13785 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 257d17a091fb3a9b3ca44fc4013c3e16bb50f85ab9fcb7df57819a00a0ea4382

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