Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05a6dd33174df33b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 12:14:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: d5624b392ed4c066808babbcc3dd5d54 SHA-1: f507b14ad550a90fbaf1b65db24c089982e8b21e SHA-256: 05a6dd33174df33be3c720841a632c56ab6cab7837a31ed5469413ac1aec4901
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rarest+male+personality+type PDF link annotation
    • http://jeremypourstarlight.com/clients/5/53/539822683240d2210db56c0084569a8b/File/xuwebofeburuvixafug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eucmt51o4k0ndm1trk4bpl3u1l/vafatetixojuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3426738180---10250793265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdecae438c---vaxazelilevena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ccd0685b0896359b3eb95d72d4fc5ce/fuzedixaxapixafavomoxexus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0spvd5pro0k3vjson0v5iulm45/juxekapojej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasbelldescendants.com/clients/40432/File/1115668047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f03bfa14ab---94518519729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fbd5b9897---zuwofozasalamopepuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/59128884000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1d002a1ff---xesenarotiribamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920bf01ba32---42354362941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/vasilarajopekixejodabozix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/sasusadedudubovisizapube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3f96b215f7---16156029637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf3cbb91d0---95829623431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrbossamktown.com/uploads/files/27468413070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralwestwoodclassof1983.com/clients/c/cd/cd4b3c89dd1500142a52f05b9125c350/File/55647187020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4f99a3143---betijesogofanogexadija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8987d0211a---pafawidakujikanirumorused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/manipufewirapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/69385304967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f555fdf5b0b02584ee1e6afe7d13dcd/22416880997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/nudutirigidupegoro.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_off0000ee7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE7D 17204 bytes
SHA-256: 90d11028a5677efc5917d11959b04d49834af6a21a889ea0b0482f5b86bd34dd
font_01_sfnt_off00011b4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B4F 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 786db110e548f6cbe491fb35c644ab3efd1b014d0ea793a5dc33fb01c7f486c1
font_02_sfnt_off0001336f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1336F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1