Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e118642b293c2679…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 21:58:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 9a5fb6a1a9d8003043cf14e618979d85 SHA-1: bce256ab41d898a6e94215f1e2bdf7974d97af47 SHA-256: e118642b293c26796e453bdfe9a37454fe2602a18a85b11764fec3b54b41669a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of these links indicates a likely initial access vector via spearphishing, leading to exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43f8cba2ab---60981137429.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e468a7735c---goguraluwidivutuxuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad0b6453a1f---delomevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fff50d84b06bbaf82a608d5078394cbe/90020837653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccc88f35a4---53974913630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad14c3699cf---mugiseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynhuagiasi.com/Images_upload/files/dovarekokigugefejuzafup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/lukerako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc91e7288f---20493454793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/1679953767609e68105c607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happypalettebnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/kumifazitimupudesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-11/20210511093133834575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d66b3c7749---45384912291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/94947840068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723ebda1590---kumopupep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/wivikives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonme.net/ckupload/files/16639072272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/latek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef852f3aa4---tigefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rg6e9gp5ficuosu1ooe71vu7h5/71601101646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.djluk.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fnvqc3b4elcs1spqifnag0h3c7/91223519788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2s9ugsg1sds58kibbpsrtdf2e/vijafelegute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/95550348778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/40800024653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+create+audiobooks+from+pdfPDF 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_off000139d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139D9 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 3af9f7d91f93d34c61f4e1311739d859e4b120d21914a8c62c8db294c6d62bd6
font_01_sfnt_off00015369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15369 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016b7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B7B 18244 bytes
SHA-256: 5a33c84d3bf66c790ecee67ed218d6d084fd50ccd11bca867664956e5a2d05ce