Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26fe0bf24222d351…

MALICIOUS

PDF

425.6 KB Created: 2022-02-26 11:01:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-07-18
MD5: 924a4f860d9cb574d3464dd73274bbc3 SHA-1: 1883c1031653493eff4938fc944e6cdbbf9c0509 SHA-256: 26fe0bf24222d351354233779c52abe34f3604dbfaf601366534a3cf9a3db99e
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains multiple links that redirect to a malicious URL, disguised as a free download lure. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK' and the presence of numerous embedded URLs strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature, identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. No scripts were extracted, but the document body and heuristics indicate a redirection to a potentially harmful site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6002

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
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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.
  • 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://lovig.co.za/XSRYdR1H?utm_term=bikhre+moti+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/97233759056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/71504101699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/323c37c1b47007a691db201f07387580/13219630686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakurahoaanhdao.com/webroot/img/files/zojevutupanasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwtcs.org/Content/uploads/files/zizotoxugekitevuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ametsvdti0p61rh5vmkv13r3cd/pijotebupazukesaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20211125231144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73358325939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/93247143008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidilangues.fr/js/kcfinder/upload/files/83293860642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133dc6850ca8---nogaxizatuxakowizameru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenements.gipso.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10814575354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.org/CKEdit/upload/files/golumuzuref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasaitogo.com/uploads/files/dexog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1621994ab1c9d2---82999090244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://integrotech.eu/zdjecia/file/52038839601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/tobotoriwoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/jatukezevubatitim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atad.ae/emanager/assets/ckeditor/plugins/kcfinder/upload/files/7965320344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sadex.pl/fck/file/99558751142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siemreaptraveltours.com/userfiles/file/79281195874.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_off0006397e.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0006397e.bin)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0006397e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6397E 18120 bytes
SHA-256: 6e828469bf10c211eda4e89a5a8bce82858ddfe06b1928cb464cb0041a4d6dd7
font_01_sfnt_off000668f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x668F9 16560 bytes
SHA-256: 924ad5cb737cfd9a34472b2046831991df4d3950e5f0d7b552a18309318c2ee9
font_02_sfnt_off00068019.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68019 10428 bytes
SHA-256: ccbbee1142ebb807e5ead0b189cfbc78bebb2e746cac5e7ef07745996692795e