Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 465561fc4c5a9379…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 08:08:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 5864cc221d929e0c729da2bc48382739 SHA-1: 5270c2cb7d24937297442c6146804a70e63a2598 SHA-256: 465561fc4c5a9379ff22af5ba0695a2823d79b3af451c320930b6d891b5017b8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's part of a phishing campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text consistent with callback phishing lures, prompting users to call a number for billing or refund issues. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and detection indicate a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaef9ec1547---11634752262.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce46502d63---67991570368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/major.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/golajavanasujowuvusebol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ps2n776dvk6q0a8adgin8f1ll/26330846565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210609194223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/lafegodironomokizidawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/69892846428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bad9a03bf8675ed7cdea8ccfcb45706/pinuzotuvuzozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c897166943b---toleluguwaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bren-mgenwil-gcbf.ch/sites/default/files/fck-uploads/file/zetitarimujometobizexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4b120ab35---36473648774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6e80e6e1d---sofumixemapodored.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a951ce7274---6708867647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/sekogatumezovuwideti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/venefokobojuxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nejokibefozezuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobhendrix-law.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/96017775596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c9d4c8a81---14946182929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/21948464800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/xabopod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/54113061587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6497655cc3---xufuboxokirudotafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/top8ap1qlnb5brihqa8nm6eqqj/98139033324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=forgiveness+worksheets+for+adults+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_off0000e84b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84B 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 698a3f3ee7b54efbe984d601dfcdab190c4f07e4b7592078a000a3d0c6222fb6
font_01_sfnt_off00011437.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11437 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C4E 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 92a162f5d2a99d83993d00e2c31fb41e8481d4166729608392fe0d90634b3627