Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26f4f096166bd6ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2022-04-03 06:18:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-07-18
MD5: caba656d591a782d111598f7bb239c91 SHA-1: f46d9c4e2012cc36ca0194dd9593edb367dfae49 SHA-256: 26f4f096166bd6ab5b5e0608bd611372da22ba28922af836b5b7da696c3cd507
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, and detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or associated with SEO manipulation tactics. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious content or engaging in SEO spam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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://yubit.co.za/YmrXLWy8?keyword=physical%20chemistry%20for%20the%20life%20sciences%20solutions%20manual%20ebook PDF link annotation
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qang0vds6kdpj8tgsfo92vddmp/53455573652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volosodavebogo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134873809/8104005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wiercenie-studni24.pl/files/files/7362427186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/11866116414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fukokegoxa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134463136/1d80027a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buwefube.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969915/3482348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.veskom-slovakia.sk/gfx/administration/js/ckeditor/kcfinder/upload/files/616685426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodonejuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134686214/6072969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaxazeludavig.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/2/141250645/6168756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wujadagepixiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856877/3746479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marquage-plus.fr/kcfinder/upload/images/files/55404292885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuzitiruf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814505/wisosefatififi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mevesazikixewo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134366921/ledamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/579459d9cabf17f6f128dd91ef045fd6/31619300560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/nexigoxamubivuleruwani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kazaviaspas.kz/app/webroot/js/kcfinder/upload/files/toseminokubolawurugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gipodebitu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136000977/vozarinalusuw-ripagigowuxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bezuxinawe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134600255/jiravutikimop_lireloruzupibu_lafono_jojisopebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fskyok.com/uploadfile/files/jirematiwemujoforojerukud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://furifusopuwebe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134471692/ab91faf746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tumixivig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636813/c56383a.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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000c5c5.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000c5c5.bin)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c5c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDDC 11048 bytes
SHA-256: cb4697febb902ab5963f2c2ed4957fdb7052933b69e95c243f7d9a3c2dc46ba0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f76f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF76F 16884 bytes
SHA-256: 8ff3caf819a86925e6850d33d47a6db30eeb563993e1b7c19ab941fd713980de