Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eb87768b232edbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 22:31:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 3ce681d2eeb4a9da9be241f4fc03a6e9 SHA-1: 532d7158cd0f0c85c762620bf0e3de41047b0625 SHA-256: 5eb87768b232edbc07832bd07fef6b5ef8904aedc094e686fc6e564501ec8cd6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e0aedb7ffad399673532a3af62a7007/38399883057.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/52967540087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glcore.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5318829478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/xumituxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dc97152a10b50b5e6f4d32bfb7cd102/3891091137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/95506939237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0936802746---61761914164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiunea-escape.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95761279363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1961.com/clients/875375/File/jasirebidareretofugote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba79ed3bf7b---wutusixotagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hncastlecable.com/d/files/pexenefamogipusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798b053f856---13927781715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aef54c886b5---fufivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/79677816973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2c0401b7c---titirolajimasagowivuzepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc182cde17b---79697960390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec1f48204617fc4ac2f8d0a8f0574ae8/21074011449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/19749357313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0f45126a07c4de4133ae2b7c84e1e6e/rigenobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b106e08c9---11974479989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fdndln8arr87q04pdfu948vip/15982720426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/949d5db025734f57252fffdeb67530d3/83898802989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/42842036536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/724d9004007f98bca7334198ec841572/fizaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=personal+interview+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off00010163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10163 16956 bytes
SHA-256: be448279469d9340d11efd706a1a7569244d50b460ed0f0a91d0458112116ea1
font_01_sfnt_off00012d9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D9B 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 820e4768f0505eb8544248166b548a557cdacf4d9c8a465cbb1f893ff8457f69
font_02_sfnt_off000145f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1