Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5cc56fb9065061a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:33:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: be42ff1242b90a2687645244d68b45dd SHA-1: 9412d9e51db1bc0f0a35497d866269028429d410 SHA-256: f5cc56fb9065061aef5369a64a2f95343659aa05afed5fca8d2f015111adc537
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate that the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=joint+pain+and+itching+all+over PDF link annotation
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074372f13d3a---milupigilomizafosaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29fb0e291d4526f7b133862df85a47e7/77620875587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/sodojavomimose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606f5e373171b---36415814192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czapla-dachy.pl/public/images/fck/file/92678497808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/kobowegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a317eb36eff---jiguripijemokiwijowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210627172051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/17026725419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/55663754002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/85698461980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceb57acbb48075c9c55101133dad9979/13792568720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160899775dbc21---47128813445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18ccb0ba9e---51555609661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8016707c7a7f9570ceba654cb39b1a9/98421949554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3382ab753f---13203020324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oddluzanie.net/userfiles/file/wusukag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/zixinisawope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ea6lelta8ab8sq3psa5ll9pa8/5192498181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kar360.com/resimler/files/mipuvetumurometitexod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/witoziworazuvol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cacb65f0873---jusobilonapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/481rlgig374tk7al1cqncbl17j/78145458835.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_off0000d1ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E0 16356 bytes
SHA-256: d1b02f49070aa3a99c5c921fb4c44ca314f174570ae3c548246c9753a64d0b7a
font_02_sfnt_off00011417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11417 10680 bytes
SHA-256: ddf821690927d6feb13c360217f56af5756ee45fe445f9bdac521c17199661fd