Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 005a58102ce19f12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 14:21:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: e635af114c0f70a59d6dab5c18fb46eb SHA-1: 95fe16b719b906f6259407ef21de6744a28a18c9 SHA-256: 005a58102ce19f125506a62e3ed12c921190b7382ce0e4e206d40bcc0051f09e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chow+chow+chinese+dog PDF link annotation
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f970f646f2d42e66f70da3b090256fe/gigulomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1c509f3fa2---68008524846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/zuzeziginevazojawagofafeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/071fdf4ec211c5c868cebe0dbd5a1db4/mobagajoxutel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b18e44ea447---5320689472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805b741acbe---38001321146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3887a8165476b1dbd32d4c08a1c630f/gigupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/52069547408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3854f90865b8df81c4f9c6efe0b46dbf/22485777557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ed035bc87c7508aa08b40e7c67f78cf/kevajamabixirivetak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/nuzigipodirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/77235804929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be42898f19f---17610923040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855bb872ede---dijolijaninajazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755a7082616---50412694538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094af246b782---karugidezomemidix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bbabd3b8f---darumupuvox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/58779170965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cbe427ef27---26308372461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shukokai-voves.fr/userfiles/file/37035583893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e16a61146999ff2a2d26e4254c824fda/80493942000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6q3fg44hb8rkfii9eod7uh5n34/14431002116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8235ae4fde---33377491736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2370aa030---97606868153.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_off000119c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000131d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131D3 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 1687b4e734eacc979ad39f795ef4b3a85030513c199fe9c30286ca6f24eb2bf3
font_02_sfnt_off00016133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16133 10360 bytes
SHA-256: b77507cf90b1dda4e68946fc093968c17e276e74dd0cbded2643d8aed0e93a8c