Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cdfdac32258995e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 17:45:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 60d0b30d1cd5c07fd7dac7cd42b9029f SHA-1: 6fa42e81ef36f94c20b3f6b48087b4987a65f3e7 SHA-256: 5cdfdac32258995ea54b61d6282b7d7cdb595634eb7813a7fd5cebbe04e90dbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, and the PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristic points to links hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The primary attack pattern is likely to be phishing or malware distribution through these redirected links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=getting+an+expungement PDF link annotation
    • http://springhs1988.com/clients/a/a7/a70db2535ed58991dd9724faf9b165d0/File/23676700546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3b7bce423---90594188080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europawindow.com/app/webroot/img/main_content/files/nonivugisesowupevefabini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/19904072750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4c0441a24bca27fdf44db9451848572/vogasexaxepat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af81cdbe14e---21957447824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uumtrjhpbql5gub4kdvbmq1lt1/89424055836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e948ab317a68c5c410dacd0067d38c17/47714348155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc7353f8ced79cbc1f701d426c95828c/kafuvitazokewine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jentretiens.ch/uploadimage/81872102530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jentretiens.ch/uploadimage/12361070936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df5330ef71ea9c9305fbe2ca4e5eaa36/1860862579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210606120053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160974ec46b7bd---xepibipibili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3c3f1dd6d---7180393941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/78675585733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/kidefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833240c7656---20579977625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/14326601726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayurherbal.com/userfiles/file/piker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourjamesfamilyhistory.com/clients/1/14/146a9f92d0a296c7c29e793db058bb30/File/27203035033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb20aad5f7---lugiteboleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/524bb0e8bca7dc4134069ca6ec47527d/45724593497.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_off0000f924.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF924 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001113b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1113B 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 155e0b5c79dff78f71da24768db584eb33d830491e2544775eaa15ee8539bcf1
font_02_sfnt_off000128c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C9 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 2c0e2bee8f125f756b923d158e3a3fefa4d56e09b2b3238a6a58fbdd56dc8047