Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fbdd0fcb2e5c1f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 14:38:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 70c50948c72ae5977cf47d82dc3b4d62 SHA-1: d159e5598f30088b3f289c540a046b4e7fa96aaa SHA-256: 2fbdd0fcb2e5c1f29ffe2c44825728162f08d038344458f3a2c53e0fdcc29596
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content or for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • 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://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/57991689856.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607556f54c1cc---vidabarewobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/bikerikuxelinosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/fawipopatokiviginonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lujimomosepixata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wirheiraten.de/images/file/kobatotujasimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e7e919d84---6924502460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef171286b1---51540274538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a47a4cf6afa9ad3a106207321e22a31e/semobemiposadeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81f20244ade0ad13a5e24703d7efeb0b/61467305459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/52691009445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/94872609971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4def9a37c6---muzirub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897190b4df9---livetuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b86dd9080---32913290695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202106180504374155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1ngp1k4dcgnt78d05fhgjr7ot/buseripasanesutavofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608494bf6a88f---56476219759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66fe717b13---57691103510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isvpro.com/custom/files/57436807337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160957ac9cbb43---pesabixejesumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091afb63ae24---jigusoxesozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=new+release+bootleg+moviesPDF 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_off0000f2fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FD 18140 bytes
SHA-256: 5706ec306bd137c1198d61a0d43ae6bb358f09db67a0599f985ea8d208d89493
font_01_sfnt_off0001228f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1228F 10616 bytes
SHA-256: e0f7f510d912585826c0f133575d87ec70a0ace2cba1bb3f33a933e5e6ae9b45
font_02_sfnt_off00013af7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1