Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c39eb9ad901026f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-03-19 22:43:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 76dd8a815ccc4796213ad635d46ac05d SHA-1: 90c761e2269a505b0a59156dbf24dde3467649ae SHA-256: c39eb9ad901026f9f088717dd01cf9abddde41e5a1328c78adb7567e30f832ab
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a payment redirection lure, aiming to trick users into altering payment details. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or financial fraud.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise 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.
  • 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://zajinet.ru/wix?keyword=nusenda+near+me
    • https://pedogore.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815008/temobotunun-fapubajibarag-xepixizagoritu.pdf
    • http://fojukivijivik.medianewsonline.com/natarunisurumiriw.pdf
    • https://gopelema.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314553/48f97b.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465123/normal_600e136f52054.pdf
    • https://kufurana.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482954/0cf13812d44c5a.pdf
    • http://zurujavurobe.scienceontheweb.net/adobe_photoshop_7._0_shortcut_keys_list_in_urdu.pdf
    • https://dejutuzalusabi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134869317/3ff946b6.pdf
    • https://bododomeliba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408614/57be91242.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4488103/normal_6035a897b2091.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414860/normal_6043105b3a330.pdf
    • http://folugomobok.getenjoyment.net/fivozutefevoxujotapetefi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://9301df3d-c689-496c-811c-0581e5fecd74.filesusr.com/ugd/f62067_fd4eb2c8c036491fbfe4192689383c28.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/734feb7e-34c2-4d07-b843-fc739550cddb/20081201958.pdf
    • http://ganatovofafad.rf.gd/arkestra_dj_bhojpuri.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0c220c31-cdb8-43a0-8348-29db25be3ca9/gamefisher_15_hp_parts.pdf
    • https://ff9dba89-6132-4485-99c2-ace8a2453124.filesusr.com/ugd/c3f59f_8616a8ae4e6647aca2c364b6f5947097.pdf?index=true
    • http://kosezofejesuxef.atwebpages.com/kumepumevibivuloxifarad.pdf
    • http://nowavef.epizy.com/sample_application_letter_for_secondary_teacher.pdf
    • https://237a2310-9536-43ad-add1-fe73b840a51a.filesusr.com/ugd/8b319d_775a21f071704522ba02eefb091caf33.pdf?index=true
    • http://xukokumo.myartsonline.com/18058779849.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4187d8f0-467b-47cf-a0c6-71fe5297965f/wesakedijiperotu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011147.bin
602669e68880afd3af56f0a7a0d9545f1e553f9185f6dd85ea7d3b8d7800b291
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11147 4908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000121de.bin
754bef0767dd45a9a0fc492b31a74b6152ddc17c7282ba83507045841e742e7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121DE 11292 bytes