Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa45a66906f84178…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 20:07:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 556ce6df54a3aa1a3a34f638e3c912ce SHA-1: 1d3b18ba6e67e6313a34f27e2c3c0bc9b44e2978 SHA-256: fa45a66906f841782b976f4c558196279466fc48431d75b8d5a59b85484b5cde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sites+like+drudge+report PDF link annotation
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/92436586816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tsviqh5r52eieka28uaut7jq2t/89984329983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745ee4ed9e8---8193727952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c0fb5f7a7---parofuwevawemuzogeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3421943a5d---rilolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condicionamentofisico.com/arquivos/file/guzizitixinagoxotogonelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/45945077842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5221p2pukhqnf4kn8dj8jjkp62/36107653042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/41011697582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/636b39799819ecf4010ca19a0a4f30c3/duralod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapaethnic.com/webroot/img/files/tikewuxipotodotovogebik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8965b0d01e8c4002a865304537a5d62c/gupidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8f0fb5b9c---85104840977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bacf98039cc---zevoxubof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/nenavepuzezetegaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62b918be203524e3d9901003ffb5cda4/dawavijidawiwosazapomorox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasaitogo.com/uploads/files/dixidusetilomejagivenaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd8253e57e---64035405560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c754bad70d---86598928066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikqnc.com/upload/editor/file/1624205921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969381014c2---88898093662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://permargi.com/files/galeria/files/16800627492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/gaxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a12c5dccc0---64670762195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b99045a431---papefiwezamevugodug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/55266415884.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_off0000fe5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE5F 17864 bytes
SHA-256: 4494a1ad3f521b1758636889060710de5ccd540e3dc91c5dbc4cf6f70a1067da
font_01_sfnt_off00012d7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D7D 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 29c41cc58ceee3d01c95c3e854400a079d370e1133e3f07ee8d8e385ba7bd50b
font_02_sfnt_off0001456f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1456F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1