Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4766be6b238a27ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:09:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: dbdfe4179bbd210b3abd62aa7afd869d SHA-1: 37be10276c973ac3db8631894c4b66c7b887de33 SHA-256: 4766be6b238a27ce0674610c54badf12700260ad28ed82e379d1d77a22183312
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' indicates the document likely prompts the user to call a phone number, consistent with callback phishing or tech support scams. Numerous URLs were extracted, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or distribution infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/zovukiloxesut.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90f13c500230fa683674080f9e9b03c4/riwosabiwunudefowadakexeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ac5392a88---gogoxetozofunenabovenuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d55dfaf7d8---31422151981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919c26340ba---91940830545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795472d10d6---23147454234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nt27j8tha8h6sjchf6ij25vgv5/6806710484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a52d2dbdb59---mivojonubawevewefevonuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21bbafa6686ab077f5b50f98850da84d/40895450054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1d5f7aa0b---53047298247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///18609982457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/55758363671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7i6vu1h7e3dqbl04lbobi01n4g/tugupivaxikipesudovibegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe31e0513e---toleremomip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/19499913584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f0344091b---nexomigomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65ecf9e38c---13706870397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/lolunepitaluxilozifuzafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10e9c8ce797d2d10cfdf12d8c84429c9/26360083766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9bd938571---buvegixuruwewileju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+charge+laptop+battery+manuallyPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608439c57a0fb---56412078417.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_off00012715.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12715 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 6e105828cb3356112bfdd7602bb3641feeaed0182cbd86c082461f762a4f4a60
font_01_sfnt_off000156fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016f14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F14 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 655ab07661497725f71caf587e6d6bb9b7075c1fdde87a1a7c387cc9a535cef2