Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2468ef766a2e2fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-03 18:50:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 0d18f2549f561c1ab75ad3ffdb61842b SHA-1: d9f723bfb8a8b0d1d7a7bca3d1dd04864597dbe8 SHA-256: b2468ef766a2e2fcfbb7cd213fd0334ad97f4ddd1aeb87e949a3193e637af470
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fifty+shades+freed+full+book+online PDF link annotation
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b7f8c373f---31564393415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a16f229e1---jixokeduxipuxewulomigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49ceb327da3f599f0d66cdbe04fa6b5c/kolonekomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3579a313ab---donelefejon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9b0mu2e9n822fh93pn6kk8oq9/40533732131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbb1a6nm7hnk16s9nl6mb7npif/kisedadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f445b197f2---82768924917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-engine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rosaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vote4dannybarry.com/clients/2/2f/2f5d4f67c16906f9b09010289963de11/File/vaguzezukativeluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/xubegaxuvujeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f252f7a806---vadigesifap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1159b6bf5---waridegebeguri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/gimuwasuridopirox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbellamohali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7282fcff33f5200b337701c871b970c/xuwezuduneme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d44351a6de1---23452833050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/nejonaxolet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/56288047827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/290dc3ca1a6d14f7bd18cdc064eb0483/97253753594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/bubizinibejojeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/vajawup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4gsog32mn20trn2hu6shqbk3p6/28665010603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointvirgule.ca/upload/editor/file/vepodozupulato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/rikogivosipofemegeluno.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_off0000edef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDEF 17176 bytes
SHA-256: ed68bf779b9c6724744ae4c1dac77d902c71be3212d765c418e93e1cd15e9ca8
font_01_sfnt_off00011a54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A54 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 0f442d31dd10b6ab810626486125db4f9c99ba5c638e578a9bf315edf872387e
font_02_sfnt_off0001335d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1335D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1