Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ad5c3d6d20ed72b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 05:42:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 514b43d463d43e0a4e0c299b99781433 SHA-1: 2053b36d698b15997ecfdb448237e43d5861d884 SHA-256: 0ad5c3d6d20ed72b6d06fd2f60841d77180db60f4b56aee6d156972329c63e43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The sample contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the ML detection indicate a high likelihood of exploitation or redirection to a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/molugalujorofujukenat.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d34d510792dcb5a7ce92588811de4411/32291694937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/20594100593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbc0bdcee6---padugikogapoloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/zovuxametanogadosaruwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/busagapepesokapuwuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbvlcgon8s6suhdq2fl8aloj44/vibexepej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1720233022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893b1a17438---kisiguguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/33140946923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/kebuvepenezefuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aeletd5ebuu48ucouc4mg6667/dakivuwejeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afr9vimf8bb7m9hd013fo0kegf/72648338603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qom45skak3gvjm66qbijrmrfa/dulofixojewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ffe66eadb---salarusepumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/13550006733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/69585765468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/dubasizitoborezisalemikaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/ronezikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3cb7b4526---334893610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f79e62f725be801c684804253a737a/tidesigutiwisemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1477b1693f---17064508976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioioto.store/upload/files/gififeketokinibifibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimsball.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38894392918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a08b731780faa8acea8d8679ca3ba50/3729679783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=zoloft+induced+maniaPDF 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_off00010f89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F89 10432 bytes
SHA-256: ff138daae3d8b919432840a6a9a27b60517a1d2f5742b13527fa13ab8ac1a31a
font_01_sfnt_off0001272b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1272B 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 313ef752af6ff4bcf0306a1daf89cb41edd6fd3ed1453eb2b58b620d3f4e42a5
font_02_sfnt_off0001534a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1534A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1