Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eb0f05187386505…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:32:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: d9396bce4b332360241f0e72bec93e64 SHA-1: 1a5ef52a1dddfd41d3b00fd284a83acaeb420cb3 SHA-256: 5eb0f05187386505c3ac5b8388786adee9884a3f125a8804a1422c09a52cb945
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple URLs hosted on potentially compromised CMS upload storage. The primary purpose appears to be to lure users to these external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dce44215139---vikotusopos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/9908512860a4c7652279c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvconstructionsgoa.com/pharma/admin/userfiles/file/19940700573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d097d55f99e0f28892e39ba24c40353/24649040016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a7e8a7c24---bomabegala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rv1nqu06vp4ipelcdvr5lc0c8v/besuruvozakavabububazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89bee699d25dcd769799b156e915fd61/xonawujisogosenugunege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac30db89b91---meroginexigomafutolozimav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c376b85f523---nitoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/wotonutetexetex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/botijurifovumujomuzuniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v4ei881srqupd3q7ev95p1vg2e/99854449654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/wimuduzegekuzagef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608269ef41d27---lewilulesexolisuboretinob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a50a2d636---30034687172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejda6dfnvdlrsihebe4r3jk83n/wevaluvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/429fc882b86d037f1559051860d0b9ba/rerunapezitufabovevani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/91496230357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/754c536f45982d6c0f29fe2780c4be53/43240074185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usateatop.com/_upload/files/4452501065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92aa85946f---61933367473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+politics+of+the+textbookPDF 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_off000117a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012fbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FBB 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 01b01ce75d865211ea87262d0536ceda724016ff056ff331aafec4372a819636
font_02_sfnt_off00014790.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14790 17316 bytes
SHA-256: 6b4f73eef02353403827897638bde20ec3f1b717f82a8160472869067a9ba4fe