Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0de64e39d46b38fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-04-04 21:56:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 937b3cdef0c8e39395d4902d2a09df32 SHA-1: 17b8bdfb65554c17911d9bb7eba18ee05d041e67 SHA-256: 0de64e39d46b38fc17b1c4f6468b30396607705e18835ca652480546cc980e97
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm and is flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ML and ClamAV detections. The presence of 'Unisa payment details pdf' in the document body, combined with the external URI heuristic, suggests a phishing or scam attempt to trick users into clicking malicious links. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm indicate it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://jottigo.ru/award?keyword=unisa+payment+details+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://vatifogogunubit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134725392/7a9c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4496381/normal_5fcf089c2713c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarisiwubaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739508/8860362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lady-bug.club/blank_6_column_chart_template6eiya.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-anker.ru/books_similar_to_fifty_shades_of_grey_and_bared_to_youkxugx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vkrowl.com/probability_book_mittbgf6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466411/normal_60627d0c3514b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metuliwilive.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134386481/5354951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460063/normal_600e9b3323e98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4467285/normal_5ffff370613d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidatulo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815220/nivuvubazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453553/normal_600c94be90776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gubulugovidenu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406252/lepek-juxomisexubane-gowuxuwasugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badge-verification-center.com/fozojopavotutonebasefamijqzns.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://bb55feb6-a0c4-48ae-8f72-aea2c45912f8.filesusr.com/ugd/b9801a_4d2f9e56916144789460303d7eafe91b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jivala/business_analysis_case_study.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mosezavor/neoplasia_maligna_de_tiroides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddf64d59-5240-4154-9987-17dfc28e22c7.filesusr.com/ugd/cec570_132f610b4dde40458706e0cc45bf9ec5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2ae8fa2d-8b21-4cd7-bd94-b44763fb9b4d.filesusr.com/ugd/8e1ec7_2b4311b229034b78b6b61bfc76b4e7a1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wiwuxot/game_adventure_story_2_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xidazeze/what_is_the_protocol_for_covid_positive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://748e6e98-33e2-4bd1-95aa-01ea3505a154.filesusr.com/ugd/704f6c_a4baaf937e2d462b8e7851b9910d4d59.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3f46bf15-0a8c-4e80-b3e5-a2e3bf90e008.filesusr.com/ugd/8e6e76_07e933477054422da6d2901c351f07db.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9de673a2-3b8e-40eb-bbf5-c0ad8e71a3da.filesusr.com/ugd/bd5c68_4ee47c412c544de49ff1a4139377c723.pdf?index=trueIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5B 5184 bytes
SHA-256: 1d94d78e0ba642a96d485b8cd4b56c0f772edb78e7d57a15b460f3286e2bd717
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE03 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 532b9779a90fbd9d37de345aef2e80a377cd73efadf34e5205b9ce09305fab28