Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 257eb191f27c6182…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:28:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: bebc3b2d89d505be7cfa41cc3d20e8f3 SHA-1: ca09978d206286d175effd56b34a634c5dd9027d SHA-256: 257eb191f27c61823250222aea73cb05c5e4fe0c7eca1c39cd8834a544182136
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or engage in phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/92089793840.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ekotronic.eu/files/file/penulureluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f48ef46638efc69bf488b9b199c6ee55/tesekufuzoluga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/wanimusexazulalojasema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0ce4ca964---newijubijixinazexovunubat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debden.org/userfiles/file/wiwilarod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfh81jp1si4g7v0ds6b4gkai12/12256309398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/np99kklurdp9b50gns12tgdmr3/tobideduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/81671206279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/238197e53e08913bff6978d944e5dc87/93777499796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stressmanagement-karriere.de/userfiles/file/75759325961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sb4lur487af5tbbd26bq1a4js7/komepofifuzozovonezazeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7d18a602d---45196773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa5b6a611f---5413179346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/vajuzumobibijumijusodel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/74191303774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e93fe961c---65574975234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63k14p514bnpclc2gauftccvgb/25405756167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c72fe0b61f06e6ed9ae8725fc4391df3/64467672717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070720e2ed4e---10431750755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/lexopebifibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/zadewatufivabadarepabebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/xuxulejomilodalimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=cross+section+of+bodyPDF 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_off0000f6fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6FE 10544 bytes
SHA-256: f5bce5049cb66541c4535e88d6e57dddad26bd96e9f67c85a50fe33bf8fcebaf
font_01_sfnt_off00010f2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F2F 16744 bytes
SHA-256: dfaedd572af52eb478565e7274fbe824e249bcdeb26966b993a90b61ad083116
font_02_sfnt_off00013ab5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1