Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5455ef40aa5c703c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-08-04 01:50:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 4c588b716e948328110585461c0f3d86 SHA-1: d4191c0220e3ae942142b3266f1e52ff4bb623cb SHA-256: 5455ef40aa5c703cf6f4b5a0e018318fec72747475b3c3f16f781ce656718831
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/37691418015.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://annamsaigonlaw.com/upload/files/vipakami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://articolo17.it/siti//usr/foto/files/65931830801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da120897fc8---27319801433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea3a9510998341b0460a80acf977f7c4/65122787285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmflower-kkc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84978275222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmarinreunion.com/clients/c/c0/c0747301521b2fcd71a0106c9132c7e7/File/82558446900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ceb7b668408d9f9d52a0de2db78934/70933073619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f38f1c2e379---56578309987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bclgrouptt.com/userfiles/file/nakobebugapumifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartwealthhk.com/userfiles/legom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/86332853032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanstm.com/ckupload/files/faximanewefezonekekix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa2cb4c31a---86190154299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lofu164svvvk33rl4c3joqfj2d/nijulubisubukitaraliwalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c17454d59---pizadajamuxosijedosuzaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suphammamnon.org/uploads/files/boloxujewegalezeluwisije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/sozivumejolam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/lofolirupadidujubube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monroehighbeachreunion.com/clients/8/88/88bd109b8fc96949fe6caf7698e88fda/File/sodezog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d942b5445c11df722d6bccd48aadbbdf/pimibudojikomikeruruwuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8d7b923283---81638291464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=museum+registration+methods+5th+editionPDF 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_off0000cb7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e38e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE38E 17008 bytes
SHA-256: eaf832871486aaeccb6b1a695aebd5490e1f6c97e0bdb6a1def81ea42ad4d396
font_02_sfnt_off00010fbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FBF 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 05794972bbeca8882691908dd5a2f5b50eeabb7e401d4b6d256c75c6f14ca207