Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6754e2a3eda0c102…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 20:03:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 2bcdf9db65a1ba90854ae4331605d533 SHA-1: 10ee0ccbdef8bf8ba7cfdc5616dbdc9c072e9a97 SHA-256: 6754e2a3eda0c1023ba8c03175ce6842456a2fa60ce0710dd06f746635fc2492
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://invest.pl/userfiles/file/lezegipivobovalumejo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46254d9ddc0cfbdd81a462fd6cd2bdba/reviwisefonoxutekifefoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/99548316537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summitremodelinginc.com/userfiles/files/viridig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/rebodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/29748647070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/18749498056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://folklorebridge.eu/uploads/pictures/files/40888721298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609875fb5332b---wukitut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba8c0ac8b8---77221750405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759585a93f0---kuduwefaxokuwitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/wazoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad7c880a768f97641374a75bd0c52a94/46518406056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/17358671530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b72f428bbe1---rexufajoreja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b0e684489---54325240374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/2795276362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c95859391d---wuxolosatalaseroridupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0737912dee2599c059935b992fa58e4a/15103842227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f669ca490a---83454157067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tt6b50juslj7bv0upq51ms81o/veduweti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2cb842124e---kebimabirofilitife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=physics+solving+questions+and+answersPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cd112db19aaab49726693d1ce5aab4d/tolag.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_off0000e6a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000febf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBF 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 1393f05936b660afceff95fc6cd975545e9fdb64ae9c129c4bc4da45f3dfac13
font_02_sfnt_off00011863.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11863 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 46c17dfc68a29700222decb706ddf65027a476318840d92dff492cbfb6489b7d