Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 278f2c6c3a5ce6f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:18:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: dd746f59718b7ca2060467c17bf27fbd SHA-1: 78488b14dbc629a7cab65173cb710acd55dafdfa SHA-256: 278f2c6c3a5ce6f375efc915e2bb61a64a57a1728941f061c85b8df5213d5e6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9767

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 http://classtool.info/upload/files/9159196230.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098841d14598---86937474221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/7540772572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6935d321f564ec8c36c0cff77af8a7e4/82950921543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksuskalology.com/images/file/rajemenera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce9f93c3f0fc28aef2c4aa2e846b963d/mizewezanabezonedul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cc2de76d9fd08cbdbadb4f52e0bfdc2/97403248331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vorufowotugetofoturoweso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchontherockuk.org/home/churchontherock1/public_html/userfiles/files/5314947836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077549e4b533---25357145231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dee2806547---92133992266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/79869082067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b71cb1eb7---98173270994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pukue3uo7c6htv8hu37fhia8lo/77535625731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kawoka.com/userfiles/file/1703003188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4988406186---32105210465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098639437b7b---90122837073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/986a890b3f655b87942b2cc702cd7942/fukik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/somuwupadikowopevogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160998386361a8---kesegosev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607836aaacc01---33425346706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/24690866080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/nekizoramoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/gaduvikelixiwuragejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://score1forspencer.com/clients/4/45/4587145e2679cb7673d0e21b436e5c25/File/3521959789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=guardians+of+the+galaxy+tamilrockersPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010768.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10768 18556 bytes
SHA-256: 2e91d9ea1cd6dcbfd695413ad75ca19bc1b5e8ba4b4fc1a88738412641f88c49
font_01_sfnt_off000137d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137D0 16280 bytes
SHA-256: d7cd55395ca8c5b3ded2e9f44cdcfdf374181edfe397b2f4d7fa01d4c9eac515
font_02_sfnt_off00014df2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DF2 11372 bytes
SHA-256: d8e02e459995043e2de2bb5aac0c117aee1a4c61f884825b7ae771789bfafc14
font_03_sfnt_off00016861.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16861 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_04_sfnt_off0001806e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1806E 1784 bytes
SHA-256: e56bba586f25b7bb331306cce9154593ee2e022724dfd3cbe2c17502343e7eeb