Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fb5485e0b7868e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-05 03:59:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 7a7677467ecb96488af46bbfe295239f SHA-1: 88e1bcd4c0c7138cbcd23dc1c6f2ee2449b23ce5 SHA-256: 5fb5485e0b7868e4818350bcf90fb3781cfdcd1d2f36362c3cfb206a571a2ddc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=requirement+traceability+in+software+engineering PDF link annotation
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/galixoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/junajelijawevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b21093c4d---52100652373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/romekidipezonejerapewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc7a3b3b988---gavonoponuxevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f3c0427ba8e9ee7faea2a16d808730b/44479667361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/3002061929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/jolitatawobifajefewuxatog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab0789692884ee35f78320557d3972ef/ximelux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gorp1vm4nlrquv3rgba25be964/mawanikalafeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0mmsan0ffp2duf40dhmgi6fh2/mumesiganoxavumevep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/62564155513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musiconthebay.org/clients/2/26/269dd5bc96e197da989a8dccc71442af/File/bekamijewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e73607071---kapujubizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taperagi.com/contents//files/9624402110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b85496ca21ef4fe90c22adee9b84350/14022185865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63f016ecb436e8e0bcfcd06447542378/73660771849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pu3jtnamojml6kcmljfq9vo9fc/telopurobituwagubesorinas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galgalesh.com/userfiles/file/8640774654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visit-pune.com/userfiles/file/bomozizesafulaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/si9ba1u1lridtc65ortk6qqk83/lizadexadivekajavapumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laurallo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/regurarufesiwiluguwuvas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nesanexiwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/bifexazufexerivexuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75e9795243a1b37fd069488606d221ab/47701262571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da787a91c3---51615273277.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_off0000e73c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE73C 11308 bytes
SHA-256: f2b2d50c32619d42539161ee1f0a262e192800a97a3c2d0c3d5e376778105700
font_01_sfnt_off00010192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10192 16700 bytes
SHA-256: a352d3e342bbb4d7142f3399638d330bd18a45353de2ada3797abefc450ac9a3
font_02_sfnt_off00012cfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1