Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9eab6c9c0d7f1df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 02:42:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 5965a667665511a8cffd41e2bfc44c0e SHA-1: 6af723965c1b4e77726fff45ec506a887222f4d3 SHA-256: d9eab6c9c0d7f1df1e04c4ea866ed0de8a9a0323f3451a2ce98f8ef87214d66c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The PDF_IMAGE_LURE heuristic indicates it likely contains a screenshot designed to trick users into clicking embedded links. Multiple heuristics point to the document being part of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs suggests a redirection chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 87 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sorry+written+1000+times+copy+and+paste PDF link annotation
    • https://loyallcanada.ca/editor_files/file/wegakomezenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58df95a6c145a82e308cb7c6af22ce6e/lumadofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/17355565437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080649ce97f1---varabugapofakexoduxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1961.com/clients/6/6a/6a73a08bb68f643008adb5efbbb44e43/File/lawijujalivuvajuronidorok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d290cbccde9864063e052ad61e5ab82/futofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e2169879c---xewuxamudubaduxenofowerok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/553avg6n655o1qoas9b7ksq3n3/4656850761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/zumivofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/udorihggqcoiut13egg1573oj2/43994053715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080edb5977e3---gavafivenifexuvudabomupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2aead6838---wotaror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/kumadurimuzozudo1620648936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classtool.info/upload/files/45661271849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaaec9b137c---56596302173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/xuvoxoropo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/82886220191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drdhsjimabrs1r5jef7hs2ea72/wojuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/46576432658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/2164415590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/86572862822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/51130366591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staples1981.com/clients/b/ba/ba027a536d51c1d997ee76cae6dc9017/File/suzegitezoxojisavufomid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/lugifetedoragoloragu.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_off0000fbff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011416.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11416 11076 bytes
SHA-256: feb7970b9d11ba5fc86fcbd3e6769c5cc1e21f7d98b12f97d2336964f69aa9de
font_02_sfnt_off00012dfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DFC 13184 bytes
SHA-256: f94c644065c22a1abb92eaf5d5b14542cb1d0897c0a679cc553173d3ae323133