Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2fd50ae87da241a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-10-04 00:44:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 6fb46a8d6cb132e818bfb131bd71a3a4 SHA-1: f6f9eecb798bbb686c9c19c88ab73498ba5fb511 SHA-256: c2fd50ae87da241aa0ba72999a90b6bda58cc7b23fdf6e85282293a8503b9f96
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including a small file size and a single image, typical of a screenshot designed to hide clickable links. Multiple heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 70 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fce+practice+exam+paper+2+student+39s+book+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://klick-tipp.at/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/novoxogajewodowepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulamanis.com/contents/files/lujazeramusuziwoloxajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speedwayinfo.hu/uploads/file/94814964861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbelly.org/content/files/files/refelewedejepugelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.be/Images/file/88974838179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipsphotographystudio.com/97613950124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155e4d721cbb---64287735212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/735acf64b5ea2c0a2f31467a699868df/sizariwifajapoguse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/5555534911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vendsol.com/userfiles/file/15942028738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.com/uploads/images/files/fijadikiriverepemuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613735890268e---ranepozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://systemsbiology.at/uploads/assets/file/29428454646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/loridugebubenivuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mq-water.net/upload/votalalopuzubeluzunuzonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harmony.im/userfiles/file/bedogatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161573436690d3---lemidimepapowolakop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terryloops.com/E/file/81873238620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/fopexonomonikamob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.org/files/files/sotemoremovawidiwinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petgears.com/app/webroot/files/file/49304574168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jwconsult2005.com/file_media/file_image/file/piselesavul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rapibaratifananaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cemeba.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/66419885950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsafar.ir/basefile/tsafarir/files/giborikaza.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_off0000b2ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2EE 11584 bytes
SHA-256: c279a79f2f77bf2ddf9fb19acc401fe4cf249143e471efb1650f269e21a0ba95
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE61 14108 bytes
SHA-256: 04c3263db0eaa712fec39405d32e118085ea6ffe4d1a0f7d68d8fd57b06de00d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f18c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF18C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1