Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d37261d02ea70f33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 20:41:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: c35668d48cdd03b68e649f835aa8c994 SHA-1: edbe37480f992c4bcb321eb88496242ee31e9b5e SHA-256: d37261d02ea70f33f29e7b6b4ac0273e6d0bde7dbc740027606ec89b85a8f911
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL targets suggest exploitation of user trust to redirect them to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://corghialberti.it/file/22276837324.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24e509fbef---83885793477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1607ca9398cfbc284f97429cd806151/mitarudodusolaguna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/16161777037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prmviji5mkhgi5n6qjus2841o7/85607090195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc8f371af77fc2e47bf63718a2388f43/wurefuwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1197591a01bf3db3da2e9f76e4655fb8/rorofujowagofopekexonov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b35d48e2217ac27d13c1c04f8c1a72a/14297530518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd67878580---74228100739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canevastoilestjean.com/upload/editor/file/76924814063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/32472395870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/14068367456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8bbeb99be---93466785538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e96d8426226b39b12e4202ff81f0d88/3540215936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab594461fd1---gataxitenatotewugizodusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc785c55d78bfad003ded9b0d8929745/larix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0vkojvg39nt4k55r44k2ab6hm/57062055922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46be7eea13f0a02c9f38e664a86e619e/17963170607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607231ced186a---87997546887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltarents.com/upload/ckfinder/files/siturasiturixutokapaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/muziboxofifidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a9f6d5506---pozaniratuveginevope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/430739a8429c7a9566f415663c04884c/80311915040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/zipoxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb1765ab4b---44720429909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=what+the+best+answer+for+salary+expectedPDF 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_off0000ece9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE9 16672 bytes
SHA-256: 58caeb4e423e7f5e511d616e2728beba49507b366bb0d7d67af9d7d49bdc7831
font_01_sfnt_off0001185d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185D 11060 bytes
SHA-256: ecaa49d981a57717fa84c81778579902a74336528dc68d6f1c177f402b329e4c
font_02_sfnt_off000131f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1