Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecf8de2dc4c1ffcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-08-02 06:31:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 2c775a30f656ba2582ef4fbe41e04841 SHA-1: 14a34c4d6d3bb7478ce5de42a70348349d1af822 SHA-256: ecf8de2dc4c1ffcc957da0fa5108055847a4a30e618528734d05b63349c794ee
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the document contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a callback lure heuristic further supports a phishing or tech-support scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/3094853020.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nktrading.qa/file/files/78270552488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/87076835204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/rodiratas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udaybharat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58111636253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dothanhigh1970.com/clients/6/63/63ba8bdc6fdca46b25bb56d5732eafc9/File/2563014097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b78ab13ff29b0b9fa25f45916f66500/37388029279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2g6ojbek5mhua1biohdlrv5lh5/2940449184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cinbb3corhorfup59fc7lpif6/gufegawiramuperedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210605054955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tikajiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7fd6237ca8f570b1c5796bee2edf37e/61662475646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1rlq6c69nf9k64crtapbikr912/13274252778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yljx.cn/images/upload/File/56183606944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608670208e0d9---zemalite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/47522995750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedfightalliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pinekedejalivopogida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pksha1e8cgar5uidjscn66ijr0/pazagulojixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1gcqcis13ts08d85v0opgogg8u/16201958670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cadc3de68c3ba940a6e244a400b2500d/komininuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791ad29008b---gedutuximuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/kekesapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe680604cbe8d1189204013597b2d052/22516522251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/gabizexifupaxisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+get+my+unlock+code+from+at%26tPDF 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_off0000f332.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF332 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 69b3d8c978d05a771199ab71c8801d03717698bb94ca7a2deb697a3af61be87b
font_01_sfnt_off000120de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000138f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138F5 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 1ca5b64fbebaffbfba500fc2832dee9ba82d6a79723c8e2459b4d4988b17c91f