Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26dc9be47f0c5ccd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:00:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: d96982e52377f7b334d435e8f5dda44f SHA-1: 098c6d35463a3fe943a3a2f566b84751c4d3f885 SHA-256: 26dc9be47f0c5ccd201ee1cad5475a24f15fe42380c624e66a1d66bc319eeb8a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it's designed to exploit users through these links, potentially leading to phishing or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9887

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://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2703c364ed---36016182004.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kih3rn4beegec84frls16lnuoa/xigonopusonatevime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i7up9r3fg1irvolc6rpknab62q/82204669252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/movupavagewokelusumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/43010205951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608318cf1262d---piruwuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f71506ca8---40897000486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ac3372ccf---5738142795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/57227094072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021052216330273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jv6m1bi50dj1o8o4ujuvffqb83/solixeronulavetubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4658c4230c---fobufebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c16498df1---nuromofefisukasora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/22139114392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/10540309067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/katuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/vamevibediguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/3970778202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/xumigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/jokisarawafavofov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/of8pljf7l1mss7700ifsmh8aba/96481967728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af8341a2cc27ab7c0934e9b81695b133/4015050839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hlbj46nmai79inas5v1fda4pta/sofenudunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourpon.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210614_2F81C0788499F01E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=muscle+growth+interactive+storyPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010bae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000123c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C0 22760 bytes
SHA-256: bab93345cfb8c3395e70a72e519c12d723b8f229775769a9bdf1ec919d9ae5c9
font_02_sfnt_off00015df1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DF1 16120 bytes
SHA-256: 19fb3e0837d6f9ee728c5331d7bb33e1bff3d595bd4ca4a0aae7833d7d421d60
font_03_sfnt_off0001734c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1734C 10868 bytes
SHA-256: bbc2139eddab078d5e100d625d567d41a1843f7dc6db54984d08737da8abc504