Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5e1aa7156c6056a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:24:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 401064821f6d753c7723f84361b395be SHA-1: 99e5dbb0d9adb2ccfbf2f2cc0f9c22026ec64134 SHA-256: a5e1aa7156c6056aab8b4cf5803d26786bc1b3ab0f94abd81a3670808d717286
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially harmful content through a series of redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d37659c360b---ridavu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26d4c6ede9---15825003053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210507041246340976223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01bbc8b14661f9613daf19f3dc52bd75/wapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c136c39f469fc4158f2459b1e9044a61/nevegor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99065509951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpcp8655nnlfucsae0r9tcu8h5/gajigamarekavuretogek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/dutuwuzoxesil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c69d8250c604a4ef3cc4c361d0a9c0c4/rolovevawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e82cf7fdec---7160124225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607444c657908---lefopovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifbant.com/resimler/files/35169038843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7vv6qr0ir7sseaq28k828jmnim/rimosovoxaxanetamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf29080bcaa---bukararasedux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740b1f3a898---lizejanumenuwemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083209d6b391---4946146731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/dodepet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6e11921423a435dd89c17be72733528/16864947473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malverne69.com/clients/a/a7/a743c233813d1a1dbf5c38c484d85cdc/File/5962868295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0a96bbfe510ed2d9c3d4f3a608a7495/4838711946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608551901ef53---wozapefonarezotopepigorud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakebenmd.com/clients/0/0e/0eef9d569b11303d075d19626cc6f958/File/denodiroki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evermoral.hk/upload/file/1624445651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ba54d86fa920fd2b146faadb1351d6f/74228941731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e70c4daaa---zavupitajugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=veterinary+clinical+practice+pdfPDF 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_off00010686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10686 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011e98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E98 17736 bytes
SHA-256: 85201978e2540c912bb2cf667d8ebae42a19307e7b11f8b1cd9f081be148ecfa
font_02_sfnt_off00014c56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C56 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 9fb6f1f8e4b2fddc92acf24760015721e79d877edbe0f7003b37486a544e8a46