Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a66ad806ed22e1ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 17:05:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 685661a68bc69c8b7ddddddec6b6f0af SHA-1: 52830d8a2e77db3330589672d393e9a6b6db6046 SHA-256: a66ad806ed22e1ac183e9d568582da5f5966347bdbf5b18b7634b4ae2171ec86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+disable+restricted+mode+on+iphone+6 PDF link annotation
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff22816eacd610124afec7f5c4d1ccc9/28274952460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kaxiwuxeberotakuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd5400df856979ca34038e68b2e45bc0/neboluvigidunebijenasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalipublisher.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gufasafefoxidifujuwezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/15215549282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/70567223837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3da19910b826448e0c1c3b74184b3688/nokogevivavesofem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/tugavopadubuziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/514f2dc0c863bdcce0cb2ded0444c422/43607539891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dcaaea5b10---9350287276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d06d20edfd2e446f81eb0618c2a94db2/89911016334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804859400be---59091595475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/50848546550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5164534a2d---28651933311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607305f8709c3---36764321960.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_off0001228b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1228B 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 7dff9a494be2731b5686c4bfeb4aa524f8b29acd567d5aa21a74c05acb805308
font_01_sfnt_off00013c39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C39 17680 bytes
SHA-256: db65fecd5d1068502be42e0fe1d7c6cde4356d32b8930393e40ac40dacfa2441
font_02_sfnt_off00016ac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16AC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1