Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e577ff9383172259…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 17:46:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 17cd1530e96931fe83043968ca8f9018 SHA-1: 07d006ed00ab992944bc985fbcbf52d1b34475f7 SHA-256: e577ff9383172259b9518a7b653ca5e3ad80b440864f4b807e2b3fe35e2e6e2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h49fgetq3f5j2pgl1ihe38ev9a/gejuvonavabimevomusanonaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/datuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njpqefrk21tphnplmt1foufqq0/88930166210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8bljp58ip07739tm94mdv96s2/96075897117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwistw.com/upload/files/91009338102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078059cd787d---ranezegiwavoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mjmcb0nth0pb3mosvk6o5t5q5m/77420968799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkeempat.com/contents//files/wisaselejasonovosanotiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rjcdsv2jkgkbem93to5him2m0/62335837876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b56e16afa34dd9416a4a10d585918203/jejofusegumulawusujax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhkygroup.com/luutru/files/xabewarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3df5eeecc2446239b24aa62a25fbdacc/kukibusawufabofagufogibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98a047873169e13e5fe877f5defa1ff6/xovulumekena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7624746fcf2d18556e1ba447276742c6/30780998867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mo15aiifiq9q32gar1kdse8rr5/pepudarigejiruvalevukete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608597ac4efad---nedoxenulasij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c873814203c---kegimawetomakewexatasokul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0fabdc73d---91621559659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f42d2c8b9badb1a220ad8c27fd4acc2/lukepekobadukezore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96dbfccafc321c8cc31572c297f2d5ec/pidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/84646469396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d201074429---49544742356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/9935088293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=confusion+disorientation+delusions+and+hallucinations+are+characteristic+ofPDF 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_off00011324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11324 10704 bytes
SHA-256: c5680edebf89caec9b93929b31482a371261dd4683ca4c43be63d6dc7ff17971
font_01_sfnt_off00012bb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000143c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143C5 16968 bytes
SHA-256: 69fa99c303f165bf9646fe10d822752aea74a5f059a366eea9b78708e6314400