Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11b2cb1d8500a42c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 21:53:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: ac893c6ef5820b79de0d78dde24e87a9 SHA-1: 113d2d1c5bd763cfdeec6bb73a979c17f6b3fa7e SHA-256: 11b2cb1d8500a42c2197a59b421f8abd092aa681a208b3a5bf5c3bb6f1071960
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a common phishing or malware delivery technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fat+and+saturated+fat PDF link annotation
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc81c035cf---29730881559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u6m5gkbargqn814mq4jjtrg6th/vuvunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/xujivadofure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b67a8c24d9e20b5b479c076fc026dac6/sivarinisuxogab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/kafawowekuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa82795c90---30178748014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartamentosalbatros.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c897f3325---75407482218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/goladopabavuxoreso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e079ca8de7---favunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/5743055576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98089cefcc---gudotapetuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fe90e5e891c415e5b81664e74872578/kukijanirijevafokep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b6b4e1be8---66638431035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapmanhighschoolclassof1968.com/clients/c/cb/cb1fed5110c07f199f416a264ee6943c/File/guxavoluzubevoguwinuvixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eae8a355762c1806f98adedbfebc460e/89638078902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ap4t5aevhv1biv57i8rvcotb80/nuxokiridapomodezizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/83149533669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/kekavufuwipije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ligadolorolibaxiwowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42e74d1d4f---70312682576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/69478709001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab87433d41---kuriminexukafigapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roeveragri.ac.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4ef2b68e6f8991a8676aefb445589e5/4141806602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad7fdedf9ae---tesil.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_off0000f344.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF344 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 2ec3499a662fda846891a54dc01f938954db59651bb6e77d82c6df97f5bae7d1
font_01_sfnt_off00011fe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE4 10168 bytes
SHA-256: cc6a4f3d8bb355eb227fb440158317b5877277a2e42eb1917fedf9d2b265fe68
font_02_sfnt_off000136c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1