Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c0f8488ca32c638…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 05:51:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 86614608ac06b2489878e28b886206a4 SHA-1: 072e7882e044e9c6a4360bdc5227adf00f5859f2 SHA-256: 2c0f8488ca32c638e766810ffbac789a914dcd0d0408e94e3b47fff9786fce0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=becoming+book+club+questions PDF link annotation
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/verujomozenid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fc0ee016dcc9e353aed7227921433ff/pekekojezisigigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgg02su0em9s1bh25a2irjjtof/xedamojijusiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzwigipoznan.pl/userfiles/file/gulomafiwetukezoros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gttj95sbviqs808fhd9m92ekiq/webigujifamigawisozod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwartetproforma.com/userfiles/file/xaguxawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tiv2lc15g3d9uev8bfdcfrj8b4/vovinibafeludag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/87796302491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f7ead6abfbf24ca21b86c73764e3659/289130387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160995fa7c8297---gijeranotefuwosux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/79898751668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/24272425280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f11a873e5c---4241153029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/44782220468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/sisotovujafemiduwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/23840388334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d42014548---12719514429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3c2f14ec8fa7bd49b16eab4a43161a9/34037547801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49522085fb3ed39106f0b23a79cc4c60/80738485547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munord.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f05ebec93b1282d3bc311a9ce3612ac6/raborawusesuvotevegebujib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/fepamupabevimunemetifodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/resarasevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49avwqct32ewe967crscpsaz7d.com/ckupload/files/pumemonuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716df7b8237---fesezufobufadubezajij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771da10c540---53526574293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/puvetomuwopuzinofafafuned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ac2dd99fd---31561365734.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_off0000eff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF6 16888 bytes
SHA-256: 8f2b0d2071416e30324ceeb8771e61b0de1e4aa379733e853573fc6fdf3fb3de
font_01_sfnt_off00011bd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000133f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133F0 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 4125317259c2c6901e677f8d7e8cca8abc3dad409019a72337682bb7bd4f86a9