Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2c24ee2e1cc8d6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:04:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 8924f996d29cca358e6707e9c8a3d224 SHA-1: 99c0559b9bc3a90517083cb843a572c43023f0d7 SHA-256: b2c24ee2e1cc8d6c1c97f4e4868b99145cc89b5c65caa464d70ee2a4b91ae924
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document's structure and embedded links are consistent with a tactic to lure users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/3422693636.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://centralcogtc.com/uploads/file/12847674922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b32bbb5729---libewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780a8bcc300---97207428846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/88359027433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinoboxingclub.com/clients/36032/File/92232957238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alixdemassy.fr/userfiles/file/topexaxepisiruvobaxafomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63n3j6gqdf9sbfn3psrge9q3i0/82588921833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d346c91ed73---44689076130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d952614e4d7d5a12f3c62ed57594f5b0/kixipenuzofazemar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4f3fa6b7f6---jirubibibizifezerurape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gbsc2lcg0v4cobq6ogrb9cotj/65485547432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72e51ca2c09afa476965c334edb28b0e/jejubemir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e6464c28c---wurexuvopigakonoduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be32bb765d---19653583246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/jekidegalumatowisijex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c521ad56fbc---51934017540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/18477273084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a19006f1b---kibofesanipadifami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810ef25e200---3692568821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c06eeba76c---miworuvodudavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/beweverabasijawuremu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ponchos+and+lefty%27sPDF 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_off0000cd85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e59c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE59C 10532 bytes
SHA-256: e62ab65e5f9dd6ad588957a611c70ea709ef3531fd18c8c995c7a815548dd595
font_02_sfnt_off0000fda9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA9 16936 bytes
SHA-256: b7a8b4ea10718434214f8ac721ba87c37d2a00554266e83ef6f3abbfe251f300