Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce6695b333573b44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:12:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 184020ebbcc4c418a2b1677da70c2a26 SHA-1: cb6bc4fb02646d9e750f41e0c918f32c597cd8b1 SHA-256: ce6695b333573b449a1d5a7c166fc66e6dbfbeab33b3f9ba867c1c820cb96e5d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or scam attempt. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to host malicious content. The presence of a callback lure heuristic indicates the document likely prompts the user to call a phone number, a common tactic for social engineering scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=change+and+release+management+interview+questions PDF link annotation
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fj56lk55f4nvjs1026eu3vaftu/regizugad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47ca68a8b13321689d268f34d2a327fe/26144258968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/69262923076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lvdb3i8hmkvgd7r4i3j5j382aq/webodasikagoborokarop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734e9bb2735---34951225099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--arbeitskndigungsrecht-best-5zc.de/userfiles/file/44375279303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb88881256---genonagur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/037bfbdbced3f5b641f1233744c16d79/rozulukip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8c5410061eda80e30d222cf31148eec/laloxegojigofafazow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/47325546613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae753d012ce5f4d77f3f8356af2cc754/nifefupulebetezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/2238471852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9116bd890581de0d4d3e23ced698a16/50326189018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078cd17ee646---63652942822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/74870746265.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_off000106e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106E9 16644 bytes
SHA-256: 688da841c4167e1c13a56fb1f454ac84c61a85f9a6c6eea266f985724b8e8069
font_01_sfnt_off000131e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131E2 11124 bytes
SHA-256: e72e78979b47ea0a9874e6a733f1d3501096ea654ed3de3d7a963db9f5a31efb
font_02_sfnt_off00014b3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1