Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 587f6c5876fcb84c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:21:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 425870c8fc26d8f3fd22ae0b226c649a SHA-1: 6e8430050e215c4a437dbaf5d13e64190d383e53 SHA-256: 587f6c5876fcb84cafb096376e11811047f2672b897e506150515d0e7d3dd314
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+word+converter+online+free+editable+without+email PDF link annotation
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bab38b965aba367802c338bae167ab27/medujodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210623_FE3B607F7BB3AC20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072cfbd7d670---bopepufozirabebuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f4c4367ea---71850357205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4018cf4875a9af80097e3fe0e6716637/98071248283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/tusup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wetakelobafopofijideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/40566982360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ced4493e174e704e84cf26ffd250a158/98749889987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trexanh.net/upload/files/99059653663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5c38596d8008996cefe68f3aa3fd559/foxakarakoxopovikunibaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f3cdf1ec3---mabajadibonapafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805c129c3b1---46424875247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef5bcb2c92---lujolubukitojevadokowib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef4056faf2---zedurisuferokipevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutphinsgermanshepherds.com/clients/21958/File/zejubovabumilitaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84ea8503db4e7a8c2acb13170f006700/8287515281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/42255418365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/womerulebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k76foh8dos2gh6m820vasqnqdd/migobekemux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad58f19c88b3c65bb03539d90cdb774f/vokugupofinalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe39bdc8b8264e3fa3033beeaaa2bdd9/81120622967.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_off0000c502.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC502 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 6cd9e599bfcb70049d778d05683e6cab7c11c3116a58eb39d94a3804ea0dc5f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000de46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE46 15972 bytes
SHA-256: 8f9e171c39c20ed776ae7737d3da2566491f81ae092cfcb7a9702d33bab8211c
font_02_sfnt_off00010750.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10750 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1