Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cc3ec939bca2336…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 11:55:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 20474b8f0c11b7e757fed882fb0912ce SHA-1: bdf16f69b7e5afc4348a81e96bfa0ad096a3fc16 SHA-256: 2cc3ec939bca23360136ec4321087bb26f9471c282200b1340add04a460f4ab8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, likely to lure users into downloading further malware or divulging sensitive information. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75rabr6smqu32pslrkn580ob66/81598308366.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/inc/50733980184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0115c5861a61023a7655a31f7593516/xubasozukezazurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/vibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/kiruxirakiveveseluxitonad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/16241493685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e97f3d8d434f14038b1ff24f3025787d/375986538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/74140456310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://animaliadielisa.com/file/kirebuwefepokopuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00b6136cbb80d2663f2cb92d8f53d6e2/24514064887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/jalize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jk7n6me9f7pu3adeih602k1d3e/15235678512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1097b224219f36969083a6de296c8d2d/tuwavixomixenawekafipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebellingerfamily.com/clients/0/05/05034faaa501c69409a7459485cba135/File/sakarolonosida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608944d842502---vofate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/12440155359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097af8ab8d03---23076542739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/zepapakuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/784dcbc85b125bc3543db4f9661f9b1b/warirabujufuzoletosob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd49c34de0---rawugovuwijerik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b73d468ef3ff0c32c0c551de495e6dfa/sabafipagibome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suzexitawexoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/807c4c3a5f94752cd6eb5329093d705a/79293062028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1a301b357---77956401168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=breaking+point+synonymPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11386 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 173f3e7d6f2260bb0fa1295f6717c3715b48fb30f9faaa5296c06ff1b52c7b27
font_02_sfnt_off00014109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14109 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 77db05ae97959ecd2bc95b5bae6744e88fcc1fedbda521b3ed2245a8f8ba88b8