Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f22df9cb5c863907…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:56:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 2a3618e20c43a87e8877e8e9c9e15d6b SHA-1: 01191e8e96781244bc05c64077af3deab7f550c6 SHA-256: f22df9cb5c86390754b0ce4fbeab1571055bb683e06b293fe9d225c60ff72c16
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=agreement+cover+page PDF link annotation
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e96d6bb9bf3da7b91d38166e36d0778/41702388848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f41c0bc75d990ce1988814832c5ce6d8/lapizufujezofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a76c8e0f86c7ac52f0d2af378ee2dfc0/11665225659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccf424fefadc614e318c42689f1207d5/22052318400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b645dea5b---53185424530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmeds.us/userfiles/file/zujubisezefes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/zepinasonuxovakiwitaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac682252cd0---22339025594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c003ab8486---pefovuwukufovado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/34069790093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c7c62e680---solikuvuwozobisonuzuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/47624877579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/xulukitivukazofoxipoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762e073d4c1---90415501414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mintaialuminum.com/d/files/nokovifusuderazagunube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ji4li94egukp87gfqjcu03gfs0/kenuletoxagosovej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608174598b943---vofevufavudukifuzima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hh9satkh7ioc4uu72obmu5q054/lababakewopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94e22c35bf9a8657f4442e6168e09a4f/tutorod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e7bdbdc0d15d7165465a0aeecd4a299/16362480736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c988bb961f9---92112037148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/lokagofajazilusejizazunom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/vaxazubizeralojekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbnjl.com/userfiles/files/xagatovalafakabedopek.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_off0000e3e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3E0 10460 bytes
SHA-256: d435b20418f92e1a5e4a40d553139e558cfa341c764e8556e8c6076dbdd9b52d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fba6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA6 17504 bytes
SHA-256: e2a63ccf61a5d38442a7a6b56cecd16c553f82e5cada12ae6a02f1fdfa204442
font_02_sfnt_off00012950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12950 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1