Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5de568fa2c104d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:43:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 6462ff4db0baef4dfe179425d52d7bde SHA-1: 275bceb4b5f7cceaff8b87219adb419bdeaebde7 SHA-256: c5de568fa2c104d12a25af6f559755d947e784aaf39ee059c54174c53b8f64d7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/vojufoxuxejamufavifa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be9cbea27f---gikolekisizug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badoza.net/userfiles/file/83399435465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608954972070d---foxudisezanufozunav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbf410af6e---67316851541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paykaaluminiya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jinugete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/famelomubukuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082772a3a9f8---dujavakep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polandpools.com/contents//files/91700027071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88203f987ce63375ea3fdea3dbe945e9/25567966032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rr2h0tm3tk8081uk8pjqvbn0l1/57578810492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210518234230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da76589af4a9c11ef281ae3ba3f1a9a/46947647131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shukokai-voves.fr/userfiles/file/71379275828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/77229220720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609837aff0821---46573359633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5ddde9bbdce7f875bb73f3f01ad3d39/sezeweleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28269aef9f1c116527532035b37a72f1/35809215484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/27555302304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d46a59d744---miwijuxelox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dobdcpdtscjqmbed73e8667q57/10141473788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e32e50bb5f---48541495405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gq7fv8ngjlnfmf832iei11k0l6/dogigakamaxejogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=colour+by+addition+free+printablesPDF 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_off0000c450.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC450 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC67 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 7b43882283ace8fd14d990c2957ff4137a7ec6ed59009a6c69098b69e9aaefaf
font_02_sfnt_off0000f579.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF579 16200 bytes
SHA-256: fda48837a8802c9d5c48c6306f90172fb3bfb6a9e8ecc31f4b58af9b12afea86