Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28cf3066bef0711f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:34:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: fbb3093b9f6fb06b830cd07122cdf37e SHA-1: 8a1604bc2823f4b50f7c47f730945e2246e6c5e5 SHA-256: 28cf3066bef0711f77642ba055fa3d8f133c110e50eed61d94b327ba3642cdf3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a social engineering lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=happy+new+year+photo+download PDF link annotation
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/rilovelivuwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bu4rot74u33apsll76d4jc05qu/tetonudasavotunifaxeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rl0bsht35kr65r6jf4k7jvrqn/59455227621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/44826504124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/62407770658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/bazutewoxoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/befinowimaveporaruvokog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78ip2go50d37e25burd2p6te2t/77723325069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0cjtp89eqmil89q4lq00s2mvv/kowoxodulununedamezareril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucavolpicella.it/userfiles/files/290058198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/buzowejes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb9f84e27c---61197508325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/pepuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlhhf7d0r90t9o2fbdv9j5bsb0/99432614061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/89949592917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc8b91a1bf---86213771821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6burvvdvbcmlentader6j24g8o/zotubovuzedotepubume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce254a1bf88353b7962bb205f432acd8/55570718768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/parin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60ecd0749f48e3b88c703a7f58ca51c7/51667131982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/4517924237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1959.com/clients/a/a7/a7a82b2a6025f7fafce5d77be70bf845/File/zufab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://articolo17.it/siti//usr/foto/files/6309511123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7ac3db3aa---84782294919.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 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_off00011428.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11428 16760 bytes
SHA-256: e93ed827303ffb78030afacb48c9080dfc2a4eadc18e831bbe587b161734d447
font_01_sfnt_off00013fd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000157e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157E7 10420 bytes
SHA-256: f7ef4d8e0b2f063996219bdadeadc4f60cf1ba139ef9090185ad6c899658b944