Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db194c2491a78e4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 21:48:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 97cdb9cad82abf5c7698bb0da078c439 SHA-1: 5c7a4993813dcbf1cd2c164fb7039fe62f5c93f2 SHA-256: db194c2491a78e4c3825080c8f29089727e591e749001e552371d0bbda7ffc85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+suction+cup+stick+to+a+wall PDF link annotation
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1817cbcdee---93463232293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608141050b4c7---tunajarig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmoto.cz/obrazky/file/5419233644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5185503f8---68279047490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe820371c2---kiwozizigogorobevurod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/xulitot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7380790e51985e82d43cf6b19943de8/lurebuvukudak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanti-fitness.pl/uploads/assets/file/60281293608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c89d06396a---45613155857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5uempat.com/contents//files/vojitutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/nojinakanetifowokerana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f22ed3a3e4---56226966027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1lg67gobglh1i3kiulplt62u0/xixexerujudurogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/53449678795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greer2001.com/clients/e/ea/ea56749d84c1a2d7db36d2c51c833a37/File/mosufuxamimupumavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6sug7jtagcuftl2e021nce5ak/riweradowijotiwotidegop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608261120fe7b---23199370924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b7cd5ad39---93945086000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbf3782815---fojuwasipegugapulofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48463079304a20ad7321d409b0fa3855/30194019443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/709d36be00a5b7c1b272e2a9d1391986/90558908086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a0f29d68c---75201122419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/2701593024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nf1356snnotkkcan6ld8b0ulpn/82650265982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/tomira.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_off0000cc55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC55 16076 bytes
SHA-256: 8159b197569fcd7f18e59e976ab5123135b25dd35b42ba6327ef7d43d0513710
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F1 10704 bytes
SHA-256: b7199d0bce2acecff371568b3d0ec1c8a6dcb021578d12ead4b06b6f13c29dea
font_02_sfnt_off00010e89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1