Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee4251238501dfdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-08-01 16:23:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 62654701ecb4d5ec632a518586eff881 SHA-1: 0945304198ec23bb3a2a96543c217f5f83ce492b SHA-256: ee4251238501dfdf71f23e359400522f3a814e426f66ff47e310ec8b3755e98c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pasarantogeldua.com/contents//files/36996247056.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/napudedowefowikev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnojamstvo.com/userfiles/file/57407844660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd3rl64mmirjjeqr55u0klflo5/99705649986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf74225fe4a---63202623959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe3c26a9118---24441189712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsforwarriors.org/userfiles/files/61855120947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/2498901856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/dudofatusigowojokofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7bb39338f---63940460074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36196468302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ad39d46dc---7815627616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1949ccf0a8---miziruvelimebez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65r9l6h7be1jd5vmfvlcrtbp61/solemubizinofip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avonsteel.com/UserFiles/file/pomutamirorek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abaff2d03ff---69366582820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49edd08a1f9a114b9b624656b958099a/35519001747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muacash.com/webroot/img/files/88449583818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96gk19id12t5jat5daikjj0cvv/64631346292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d15468b71---10092739537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac7f71eda2---donuwolapilipipumeraza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xutricolor.com/uploadfile/files/40281300693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=mp3+rocket+for+windows+10PDF 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_off0000d547.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD547 10920 bytes
SHA-256: ad1156b0229821b87abea1cc67833915a9a969ab47b05dd58a9373811d8c2423
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEDA 17140 bytes
SHA-256: 421efd4ee5e13631cb90f8673534361971e0ec2f18da72e8843c74960d023c02
font_02_sfnt_off00011b91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1