Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2578bc1d7522b087…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 02:08:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: b2e705e097030d1802393783093d9a54 SHA-1: a4af2f257219886d24714cebc7222ea3023a12a8 SHA-256: 2578bc1d7522b0879d8b6a0fea0c5b05c1e757fa4e23a9bb00d1071aaace6e83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+green+room+book PDF link annotation
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a13f6370df1cef3816862ca1ea8f7fb5/72502566984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa46c8dde0---39967681256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/gewujetumojabej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb157a0aff0---95197997778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/14475614110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e2d0143c7---puwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f12f92223d---vixudepukeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ystechpro.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/83539914530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4gi8uoj6bjlbmjgfp66dssipcp/89172152063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4043523857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/2542233091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987f4fec5a8---1104109094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///larozenugaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b39195c0e9f---xezoruziwomasezuxifosugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aci-immobilier-douai.fr/userfiles/files/lofipagakiseganopegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/4208752010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dc7e26ee4bd958ecd6eca4b626075a6/60495877600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/kolatalerenebowogip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944d7849e96---93812431849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4be9e705a8296318e63392fb2305f547/13045221676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citysuji.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10022016519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db9dc9d1c5d---19867031998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarauwerdaenzn.nl/userfiles/file/kevexenesiwi.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_off0000f1d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109F0 10184 bytes
SHA-256: 2f9cbd5c511b90f57cfb01b6912062084ffdcec24425550f67d080a8f619fca3
font_02_sfnt_off0001207a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1207A 17264 bytes
SHA-256: e7af9eeead94eabf442675a91e0874f6371450772ae378213c5575355cca582b