Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ced99a036905e41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 16:46:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 3ee82c9db4ad08a4ab953dab14079bb2 SHA-1: 47622f668b3052c3e5d8c365711f65779f970327 SHA-256: 6ced99a036905e413d05ca0448e069709cc7b0a3b69e9f78920883482a57a2bb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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.
  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://vce34.ru/attachments/file/papukedovapofefevod.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b248b514230a0bdeb3808164f383c55c/75704251134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61900409739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/kijumupelavarejodevujav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c01376717---6840482575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0c10c2cc24e36b179a8c661a92c5e86/76342512363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8523cc8af37a4205b4bd35428cc08bcf/fubulirukor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a425a8d55b4---19672904370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/vixuxafukewagenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/24299027704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/mujawewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/gunipapedumafivesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walthamclassof1985.com/clients/5/52/52060312c10aa816a718e90a19a6a7a1/File/sowifosoxiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4219250cc81a18fbbef39cf3ff5c73a5/82194529764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09272a3095d622334e7f91ea6bf02901/34151820444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f15b49eb5---365036726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c36718b700---93910092154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterlootour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210612_8230E3A8B3EE9720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cab70b3473---wegunurejesixevobafowigup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/sipasesisesisolilelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86o1cdavqou19tbgo1t2mg2bof/58303324136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af71ecd2f721f05e721d9a18efbd5ff4/10243912062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=answer+any+three+of+the+following+questionsPDF 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_off00015b97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B97 18364 bytes
SHA-256: 9ceaaefb3d402a99737da9e414e9d5ef1dc2b8959769305789a4c829dc15a9de
font_01_sfnt_off00018c42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18C42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001a459.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A459 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 793369997919c533fe0706711ca8ef315eb09b4903ec11e6ce4eb4b76a37e221