Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf952a8a8c2bc3f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 00:15:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 2cfaf9f8b416ed2ea4870c1a949e27a9 SHA-1: 56dcfe32425069c5ecd0d85a864351a2544a1750 SHA-256: cf952a8a8c2bc3f33e4ee2b7b6e81f669f4840bef5953d127319a6c7323f96b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious or deceptive content. The presence of multiple external URIs and the nature of the heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malicious redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/lerutazapuvumupati.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/dupilipakafawuremuvuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akssert.com/userfiles/files/28106899694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bj9o2gali4adcpp3b40vlde831/12218760343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungthanhauto.com/luutru/files/1902752984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/65195300562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2b0172f8881b2b29056f72663d6b503/9319978385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09645eddce5c5cbecdcdca9af756041c/kegivojunafosaguda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb408be818---wexuworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608399021e28e---80654711907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/5051878671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3bee36d82fe7fba2ee0ecfae3321088/rawajowini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regimhotelierbucuresti.com/images/userfiles/tegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae4cn57ong46ur5itduab464ba/duzixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4smontreal.com/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/84894761753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/81994355298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/tidopotipemelafusirezutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8566b83d7---romaloxulugigule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/9348330657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=1+sq+m+to+sq+ftPDF 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_off0000b211.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB211 15344 bytes
SHA-256: c6bbf8c13d7052c2ff2db23b71c2c4d21446ccfc73b0d822e4096444cc34f999
font_01_sfnt_off0000d98f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD98F 9840 bytes
SHA-256: 357a810c6f99f62eefc0c4cfd9fad0bb672a1f44a81981b4a1048e8edfa7deb9
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1