Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2876490d5621183…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 12:06:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 9d21bfedae0aeba0247b997c43a0254c SHA-1: 233e75b2281559124e5ca44e0df628c031b0921f SHA-256: f2876490d56211830111f8217ffc363d0adf3f418245e0b43297585275243f57
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating a malformed exploit stream and a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious websites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://business-plan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/sanexigemulajefug.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q6q9m9j73948sim5ajue8guiss/judazojegiruzasaxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cedf9f2ed1abcb34fa21c73c2c5d169b/8897848924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af4b6d5fbf2d3477ed9dc601d201f636/venawuvovuzefagatijodaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/40314193896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/judirixoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b82b154bf3469e846224cdd84d9cc77/21177124003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7843a8fc34b5e6851bfd2c7d7b8e2b94/lozosufomusubezogizuvin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8ab49e925---95161377649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d41523952---kapefune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21db141ee25693dc4a6a887fdfd3070e/vodupiweke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/biwepuvekuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f3684060671c96fa87b204a2cdd2907/26117751640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/79600758709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803f7579b64---42511381083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/kutepukegawebeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c810fa5b6a---31115149308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dannysacademy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muniki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/24356107240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///42230406231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dv9c4eklf6jlhu58eei95ckfr6/newezoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7cac5e96f7---wigofofilajetisegogizobej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-10/20210510131942432820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=new+horizons+3+student%27s+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000bdb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDB0 18768 bytes
SHA-256: ddf23a4f8c5afcbba2e3e7ddfbf56238516fba95008ed2b852893adaba3215b2
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10465 11048 bytes
SHA-256: ff70f834ac6e3aa78d2d78074e441a57d74ff431a7dd212b93c71ce5b42f20e2

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