Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e587564b7df4b2de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.4 KB Created: 2018-06-11 08:05:54 -04:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 22c339a2798737bf316643196c82a347 SHA-1: fd494dd551d668d9dda7bd968595657641739960 SHA-256: e587564b7df4b2de51fd2b726e5e36e5dadbfdb5645ba6f622d1c99c7fbea7fd
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains embedded URLs pointing to a suspicious domain, uncpbisdegree.com, which are likely intended to trick the user into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of the payload's behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9123

Heuristics 4

  • Fake 'free download' SEO-poisoning PDF critical PDF_SEO_FAKE_DOWNLOAD
    The ML classifier flagged this PDF AND it carries a visual download/call-to-action lure AND an off-domain server-side download-gateway link whose query string names a document payload. This three-signal conjunction is the fake-document / 'free PDF download' SEO-poisoning delivery pattern: the page is padded with benign decoy links to dilute classifier scores while funnelling the victim through the gateway to malware/scareware. Acting only on the conjunction keeps benign download-bearing PDFs from being misflagged.
  • PDF carries a PHP-gateway SEO-spam PDF link farm medium PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains four or more clickable links whose target is a `.php` gateway with a multi-word search-PHRASE document slug embedded after it (e.g. 'index.php?.../binary+options+trading+nz.pdf' or 'pdf.php/cialis-dosage-side-effects.pdf'). Legitimate PHP-served documents use a filename or numeric id, not a search-query phrase, so this is the generated SEO link-farm shape — pharma / binary-options / 'free download' spam that ranks for queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains. 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
  • 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://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=the-golden-slipper-and-other-problems-for-violet-strange.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/download4.php?q=the-golden-slipper-and-other-problems-for-violet-strange.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hornywhores.net/In PDF document text
    • http://www.readkiddoread.com/great-illustrated-books/storybooksIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gmtoday.com/timeout/reviews.aspIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vggts.gdn/where/index.htmIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/us-aircraft-carrier-41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/taller-y-el-robot-el.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/september-maths-grade-11-september-guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/wheat-germ-dna-extraction-lab-answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/su-clgn-turkler-turgut-ozakman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/skyrim-legendary-guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/user-manual-for-mitsubishi-galant-2012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/tempting-adam-seattle-steam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/student-solutions-manual-for-statistics-informed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/water-and-wastewater-engineering-solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/EudoraIn PDF document text
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915_in_literatureIn PDF document text
    • http://gutenberg.net.au/crime-mystery.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://onceuponatime.wikia.com/wiki/Henry_MillsIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/gIn PDF document text
    • http://www.writersdigest.com/prompts/the-missing-shoeIn PDF document text
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_FablesIn PDF document text
    • http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500221h.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1322/1322-h/1322-h.htmIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Lolita-Lempicka/Lolita-Lempicka-456.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Pantheon/StorytellingIn PDF document text
    • http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BiTheWayIn PDF document text
    • http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/wasIn PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521839&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=246338&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
    • https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=868922In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=286759&CLCID=409In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617297In PDF document text
    • http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Nursery_In PDF document text
    • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000044b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x44B9 9856 bytes
SHA-256: 8ff446131d137e4f8a810d6e69b84730fa95d7de60038833557407cf311a6efe
font_01_sfnt_off00006446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6446 7148 bytes
SHA-256: e1237bcf348061fccb6cecde36dea3c61954312c7acc1f98ed9dcc04c98462e2