Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa4c941d56ea1309…

MALICIOUS

PDF

131.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 16:44:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 6ad161b583012d3bb67b7928eb3fe6e0 SHA-1: 7fa1f06ea7fcf2c0687c5e757674e156e8ec4ded SHA-256: fa4c941d56ea130977bf5dc25f1dea35459024793197ec3af9d274ad842f92a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that likely lead to phishing sites or further malware downloads. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the detected heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=c+and+the+8051+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ba6nf0c6qskqejab44qllavb0/75480687548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086beb533cf2---37520651263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pg9ai6p9r7mri60qb76jdmolol/foviwopamanaliver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cbe44c5ad190ba595d9f5a38a898955/1144683665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/bibofovemurifazozisobiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/vawabedefoburemira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/jugonivoselumuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/38059355774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/woporajujaroborom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160959f34cbfcf---71625298270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0c3129ce3d61a114e674a21ebe0063f/71545391699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af6d81755b---bomigivafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37741ce90313f3e1a84627e07cf6e346/faxixuwiwozejefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f7aaa43e9---65894492003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/52565182075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/67569453024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/35163761221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8b07bb648c031dfe6eadac56a9c46bf/11670122772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7426120053a9f7d5b23599e378cfa08e/82200583355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083812caa89c---woverumafudufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f9818352e---bupetudegiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/figoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082aedd13955---titof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/zuvalulidax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21101ccf249859514525ed9291bae86c/5907929445.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00017f9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17F9D 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 95eb07b7a862f82e978d22669a572b9d6556b93e3d2a180d77d12d8e568353c7
font_01_sfnt_off000197e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x197E4 6136 bytes
SHA-256: fa4151767d667c23487f8fd0c2ab667aa13fcbcee6474ada9d72aad74a0702e9
font_02_sfnt_off0001adb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ADB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001c5c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C5C7 22948 bytes
SHA-256: d67a32a83349b66d5b7e3e9abe00ebe9ab61e48979fd207afd1d6aea57d2b65a