Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e09d82c1f471d67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 04:50:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: fdb73eaeabe65d34884ab432ad8d5a12 SHA-1: f9fa0dfe79cdfbf7a43b95405cae3400a8175782 SHA-256: 5e09d82c1f471d6733944796060b0c05ab1925df978a690f8d4be736c8550220
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it is a link farm and a callback phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggest an attempt to trick the user into initiating a phone call for fraudulent purposes. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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) 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 https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f22daf04b0b---87735756015.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cde33e5aa34---refizugifutinopisiwul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saam.vn/images/content/file/97909340538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86eea986462fcdec013eea40135186b0/xozadapenoganon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/gezodagisul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f1193d3ae---mimominefuravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/77769126710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-miyaco.com/img/file/202172112424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74a9e0def5334b23413b4f1f530f8e1e/pujade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/xavore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3aab9522a1cf95640df0aba781d35f0/supoxalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettorobertafasola.eu/userfiles/files/48946426928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ccc2d7f6c---22206537702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilafafafa.com/shopadmin/upload/files/raxusexuxedidekifafezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb4450be68d852fd2ec437cd82958b95/99209568787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be52b9b489---gusovoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/12121252201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/24121918931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/45112174958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kssi.ir/public/userfiles/file/41174716478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+explain+someone%27s+appearancePDF 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_off00010fef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FEF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012801.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12801 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 045b89ad7a4fed1d04b48f09b77320cf26434502bdba2444dc544ca11c8029cd
font_02_sfnt_off00015403.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15403 10748 bytes
SHA-256: de16e2722dd929100b1ff0fb54c34acb879070d4220b118807fad3910b9c5064