Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f54137a504863f17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:18:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 20f2c1184dcdc644e4cd7a4380774cdf SHA-1: da3c90b638fceaf81e67f181a8e003c8172a9dd6 SHA-256: f54137a504863f171fedc8d7c450cbe4417e47f185a99f127539fdd917ea2da9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lead users to phishing or malware download sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://itracmediav5.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fapuralatavegewigiveteve.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc38b9e1367---wekuvogirazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90db8095a14920790189187702a3430b/leduvipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/95302475348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/dumavolum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1ab2af1ba1f006daf61c0de77c4f209/nizejadigorasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607638dda9c71---devaxeterukowonoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owv-sad.de/userfiles/files/11304241281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608197a6bfbcc---mesup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/319c01d2b318e677a817e2c0bba5b9c8/72502786915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944cd852dc1---3673054532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30ff1ed956---rixizixuwogiditerer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/ziveguvotigore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jt86kkcc75nicve30d12538dfs/zumeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/tanetesuberuvorolelib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72f1884dd09662a7e6201006b41310a8/47342062641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/60425624181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d24976df3f---sidunuwebozadutojena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68d82d8f5b83b46f121495afbbbaa45b/tamikef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607312f5b38f6---watunowilese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac9f4b122f---zubugetidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a51dce936---rezatin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=firmly+meaning+in+kannadaPDF 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_off00011dc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DC4 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 69e673c02ca7d60ba9dd7ac814f8fb836cda4ccf2c6de7aaa4adcceb40044375
font_01_sfnt_off000134eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134EB 20196 bytes
SHA-256: 1b2809caf40d1a3078766bc24c5b8fbea35fab08bcaa765f13668162b3b76c10
font_02_sfnt_off00016967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16967 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1