Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd450567796b4957…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:24:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 3f70943e1e29db462081bcb7c0451e91 SHA-1: efcfa22f8378c36f7d03ba4c7498756e4937979c SHA-256: dd450567796b49573a388d872cc2c3bad40735b26f6e770629224ab348134bc5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, likely intended to host and distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c074f387dc---ridewinilupan.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/21022614186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/33136607234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41172844352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5df8cbdb71b1e03dbeb4e8e808671050/11349987452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab1l2unmgatn3ej72c0g65ae70/77220453341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qq7f962h04sq00ip6mqv77cc55/takusodemozuxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c842b6940d---fofubexinubaxejaxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0e4464d58754b9761b8eec70157c7d8/zabakodoreninuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simondaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vaserujunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/602c3566ff4511a074bb66b28b1664ea/6282367085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cb3bca1391d210d86fead83e3792fe6/wixevubiniramovofovuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b084cc4ce5d---55324634563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808d3d36e79---jabitoxodavelaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24e121fb39---belorov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863d0dc513d---zemasesezobatejeweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoop-tech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/karorabebitamuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c49b81e8ecb2d4abe3fb72d75b52d8ef/patutirutufajodemogep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ca04eac59---wimobebevidovoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4ef161dd52---xipazokosituzuxifemutaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69510254298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/bavajovet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=rottweiler+and+german+shepherd+mix+puppies+for+salePDF 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_off0000ea78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA78 11276 bytes
SHA-256: fc2aaede48f9e8f055bb68a537dad8fe7349e15d30d021d724a222d9eec5c6eb
font_01_sfnt_off00010496.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10496 16652 bytes
SHA-256: 83c65d664f3b1f59cb6128364249ea2b7de7d272c5348e911bb9cb2ab39f1665
font_02_sfnt_off00012fdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FDC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1