Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c275d292ec76d591…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 05:04:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: fcbc946ecf817793f1c0f33562145168 SHA-1: 816a087c72f1f940c26d36b6f1b6aa14e0b4b564 SHA-256: c275d292ec76d591a7558d59561982a4bd06cd5155d399b4f94bbaa561b639f3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=ss+gseb+textbook+class+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m2e1307jeje2vv606a8ka0pcio/getiwefud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b190486ac46---50086185956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/jakulezoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91d4f42e5019e9cd650a42366f586976/pelekunivusikulifiwovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fedhbb0c0akecbmkb1ivlop501/ridafanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///2021061715150_381664745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gju3goom2irscttbgfc9evvd5/89866170451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitalclassof1970.com/clients/e/e7/e78cae7b17622b0161c193cbd63f4fd0/File/lekuwusik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25fb439b3f---zotara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1761eed5cf217bd8572fb5567b41524/fovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6621db77ef3a766caac66aa2dc24c7e/66653129294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tevsil40fdrll054cbpkjr1cd5/77272284085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/bakagixotoluve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/944f2414d17024d68f5d36a39c5ff8f7/75450710361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0b25cdb033f1a0a380de2c8e791bd03/vanabev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/17261653067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skinrepublic.vn/webroot/img/files/68764587449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e459e49a08---ropaxodabudepura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corghialberti.it/file/remiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/22741339689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/savetik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcf2362f91bd3138919588c314547386/27847307069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3fa230bc5---70146342235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aea0f3aa83---54313157964.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_off0000ea14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA14 17396 bytes
SHA-256: 04410db9c36a67921392880043124bbeafc59f228a9a42b4a5bb871ed55ada8b
font_01_sfnt_off00011728.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11728 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F3F 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 0adbea45f2fbd7e2b874533fa663561b7a48c14cbb61f4a80c4826afcdd1f06d