Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9f409718bc86d5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:51:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 8a7c3661b5d371432c521363dfeb3bac SHA-1: d9dec877e5d1e82000b986ff7b0d6cc10c94750d SHA-256: f9f409718bc86d5ca40d5979eceb0296e0f1ec92162c64f798603f877602525e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious redirection, likely to a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-05-30/images/files/butofozolonowino.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9ac528e0344325ec6faf953ec02d6b7/sutupabobuponekozuxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbc34691caed5b67f37c4b481c4e3891/96105965624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30f48dd3808dec7c09e5c16c30a264c1/93935710010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whalesart.com/uploadfile/file///2021053116481878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bacd7f373---95905318236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607101159bab9---jisavipoxuxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/65568942414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eaa71d65b3---xelinijesemidixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e408d7378a---13191070046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d2fe9c738---89459836712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kcequipment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d80fa28d3f42db3c1e60395eadd064d9/55896670377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609517cff1a25---40009289424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/21371215884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ec8a39aa5---ronarikeluga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dce40af906f27789fd50938d61ab2196/jivijerusapenerovefetoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759af01d19f---wejotenabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae41172ef05---wegemumevom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/vujekud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/4501264864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f37c76bb85---rugekadipodiwozibufodixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-camper.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68547739715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/gulabukafizalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f160f73e96caff13e768d38c99e970b4/37673299738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091cc327079c---mivewodalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=sick+pay+on+zero+hours+contractPDF 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_off0000f923.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF923 10868 bytes
SHA-256: b25ca790dbe9d714f771db97b5299864328823f0de4c8a2dfca38c22965b4946
font_01_sfnt_off00011244.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11244 17028 bytes
SHA-256: 8e31c2f778fc07ebd197931eca5ab2684f982a5740f4d0b1d94b8e95e50bd11d
font_02_sfnt_off00013ece.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ECE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1