Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ceb6d36c7e32162…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-07-15 17:25:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 67a7e21fc3ca77f2ce97d3352899667b SHA-1: 1d0265e5105f0ad2545b33b7a0d2da4369dc6e39 SHA-256: 3ceb6d36c7e32162e3cbdffe905a1425a4afbbc14ba49161c3f0aadd342ff6ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The structure suggests it's designed to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef2gmu0bo188f04e0kais724l2/varax.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b59383a4014322b4c4ee0f77df9476af/luneti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609477cf42788---nidebised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a2c4a84b9---muvejixixamuzipamejufis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boyanbolyarski.com/userfiles/file/biwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nada70.org/userfiles/file/2104333750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/49590315252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l75qjv91oo16h26rcn6o7se28g/96284538192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/gorovirakubezumowivafuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/menanuxelubefakaxepojag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/52365478245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/nisafuxorupopaxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c465b0609---faxateviliritegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f1220f02f---18084350432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/kaleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkconline.com/landmark/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88273910476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81bf96e20d7f7f270fa12dacf29292a2/bozazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c506bd86eac---26029137048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5eda932e1e---zolalefugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/51237378953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/magorupogotaninufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/82801249056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/kazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/8765936146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=science+book+for+competitive+exams+pdfPDF 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_off0000e118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE118 17652 bytes
SHA-256: 72673b5c8cde9b98d302995e99da25cb20ff635705674b662a9f20278b077b2a
font_01_sfnt_off00010ec8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126DF 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 9e7ca512dea8e6d850b19c3168f07e28d76219478531d8c6114ac83431d73a66

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