Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5e9346ff14378b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 18:19:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 3f7ef1b3631acb1217f3c5a9032f1c55 SHA-1: 1a6763466a4624759d9c6de416e3bbd992854aaa SHA-256: c5e9346ff14378b7771c2e0c6a04c49e52605ee11e4ffe429c1f011c313b7507
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, pointing to a technique of using disposable or compromised hosting for malicious links. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or credential harvesting campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c69c6c071ff---80729589145.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4c9b80056c513954decc6e125f32501/69096360864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733f3c3ae55---6776824897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731b8ab8773---32515534357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/polafero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1ct4o8is6h1fus17mdfmrcvsa/xajekivalexefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d829086dff3bc396570f19d46366b831/riwonas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globaltruthmediagroup.com/clients/a/aa/aa8380eac451876ae6ab993bf3a720d6/File/50924197438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfc7jiplcaibrsfnssbulj20pe/zinosuvosagarowotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/79446875223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klefmarken.se/upload/file/jilaraxokovaxuruxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d75eafc8d230afc6a8246cc490ae69b/mejorimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d758c1cdc---2899941563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/xupofivanijukab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54148407350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56bf5bf717b3317a21f67397d0202c8e/41010139223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd0c36bb2b3---65635268303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db4bb5c85c---17463315838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1e02f8c50aa55945fb75ccd002e97c7/39774326033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/niranosakopadex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0455056cd380e394fcc55de55eccad59/bimipobovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a61545ff44---4274946944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/kozekulikep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51796819b2fea5f71da4e94bdd9bf7ce/mifalupabemujotazuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=two+wheeler+sale+agreementPDF 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_off0000e5ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5AE 16608 bytes
SHA-256: ee6eb05583fe06f039d8367c9ad57662754deb62e157f29aad063fa0994d4da6
font_01_sfnt_off000110c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128DA 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 7a6006f35f827723e6e5ddbce5eda05efccd265e9ddd9029b555f1a6097fd2d9