Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05195640a430c12a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.2 KB Created: 2021-07-24 18:15:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 732c19d8281fea5f33ad5daa7d0162dc SHA-1: fccfc9fdd5c0a7d786e263e83075a992f07ed326 SHA-256: 05195640a430c12ac4f8f52be450b669aeadb00132de398738d786da59884050
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of a fake CAPTCHA heuristic suggests the document is designed to deceive users into interacting with it, potentially leading to the download of further malicious content via the numerous embedded links. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and heuristics point towards a phishing or social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Fake CAPTCHA / human verification prompt high SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA
    Document displays a fake CAPTCHA or human-verification prompt — used to trick users into running commands or pressing keyboard shortcuts
  • 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://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58e17f6b2b0c47fdf0e510a8838e45d6/74489294069.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864cf14a21a---39195193496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43ede59801---61325771810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e181b418b6827b61d48e589da20f51a/desejozaxubiruzapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0b7e8001a6210ee8ee2158272f21b66/75913153555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0011396c6ae78ec1f56ef02aaeac5be9/komelakudipixaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/rajotiduzudavivoguneli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608435b203eaf---36436734710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4229f4d5d6---40602399767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/xajiwenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/peloburujujiweduzimotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/wasizepizinijorulevuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apotekatia.ba/fajlovi/mediwibujuxaxarasamub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmscsmartlifeblog.com/userfiles/files/76354763860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47e2238b86---fadegerumekafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080109e0a1b6---2775320253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835f2d0d1ed---kizafigikixikejavup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609204de2f056---3400407859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galeriejacqueselbaz.com/userfiles/file/bezirugazovadapapizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49093ec8e689679487c18cf24b543d6c/10095956206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongkoo.com/uploads/editor/files/28487949445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///39621483104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae299e89373---xelelapaluradosigeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cittadelmiele.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e3c3cb362deff2e6f6ec4e29a2c81da/60717236965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/95380008001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+big+can+you+get+in+slither.ioPDF 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_off00012fa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000147ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147BA 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 29b5bf2c2541302d3adae50d5bcd56f3e63c06c2283634d67105b0d64deb1816
font_02_sfnt_off000176e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176E1 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 3fc06a393893f1cc01b512d5569704d90f450cfa52df52fb22041025627c4953