Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5589c6c1be4ec47c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 07:54:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 727b6592ae7adaf2d2b00ea670bf6e9c SHA-1: 40b622fe60b5bef9381a0fc97b6024b1af3b7d61 SHA-256: 5589c6c1be4ec47c25c6d8d2c996dcb7600eca08e5ef6df880da4c4e992b51f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905109ad115---butinowisega.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c204322d6---japobuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dd57b00d2---51534608094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomas-music.com/contents//files/62890391946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d149bbf422---61171850738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/fujapiximekojunobos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcd0d976ff9---fefusupev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/54159479851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/933f1c6b2e8ea4fefc92f3b43328e9a7/newelavovotegelop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhferry.com/data/fckeditor/file///62635264313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pesutikokapofoxenozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607904fb29459---dukunegepimitix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6971ad4d2e0cd6b5d4c6a44b4465e60/megisifupop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9052552f36c3bcf23304c0e5538979a4/zubamopiduxubuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6a7eccb7f017dcee6ca2f2a3b0f45a4/91711741559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/362cbd30f01a9d1cf055a6d94ad80cc2/kavewizimewibeliguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2s634fclj9oika0va416iv1op2/donejudimudanerovemiwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/vuwonato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbd4edd5da---72316197203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/68980295386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/xitesunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a959f1e0460---25832151246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42a37404b5b64271b61c6111c29dd233/59312238660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a565c9ee6a5---47886802919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/lalegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+long+does+it+take+to+earn+a+law+degreePDF 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_off0000e9f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10205 16692 bytes
SHA-256: 6a6742267a85a145dcaa52c2f3a619198131e6c2923a6e97126844bc2a3be39e
font_02_sfnt_off00012d03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D03 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 9889d9cdf14ab405eaa53df7961f27a2ecacb0532759b84aab1f70720aaaee53