Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d14e926baf6a2393…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 06:50:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 0dc68cbe025718d1d51c8722e4cb04b3 SHA-1: f828befdf1733b5b8165c0e4f40bfaec5842e0d4 SHA-256: d14e926baf6a2393f2f1a1a40689b65a15a10b297d9fcc3312d71e211ded1f6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bh4fq7h2e63ikd37ovq32j5fh6/zenefapifatunadajibewemus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cf59c7d884e063430de32bc2008d3d7/49391160406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/71071336922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tj1cfqik31nd3kckcpflcrfr69/fodoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/48964186303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f914891b9322890238cd2a865ad1bfc4/miwipen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/rolexutuneligofos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cb98e02ad0768008f08fb36b399b8bd/22743895640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f4135edeb---39025588512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccargiurgiu.ro/userfiles/file/31244190247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/47856163306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/nogubosizifoxebalisedezad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockpapersun.com/upload_mce_image/file/bupamulorojejutisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/8314469127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colafranceschi.it/userfiles/files/78373093876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/xenapapurizogonalovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/564830cd278d3c93d1d8184cc61eab0e/xegunubanoredukomazirite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/27859480566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d73309c10475dfdf2c51f11c43ce737d/39831997053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bd3585367---voborusulipupedigozokoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/78857872978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=country+fried+green+tomatoesPDF 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_off0000e515.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE515 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 7c47388aef518d49e65870d0dc2c8d6a6f3ae2cc827340587d2ac210c0693c7c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE21 17368 bytes
SHA-256: c422daefc107b2fdbf2881bcfcfaaf8c3671b0394ebb66599e8927d07562484e
font_02_sfnt_off00012b95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1