Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23907864f1bacb31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-03-05 10:15:20 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: dc0d1d5d6bbb97016321bb2e57a5415d SHA-1: 71b77db4dac33bd2403c7142b153c891150c706b SHA-256: 23907864f1bacb318f17fe16d6c7a399e6bd1d4e3d6246236235b631b5127cc5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, with one prominent URL pointing to 'jacksth.ru'. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass of external PDF links, suggesting a tactic to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the PDF and its link farm suggest it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities or trick users into visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://jacksth.ru/strik?utm_term=pre+and+post+testing+in+advertising PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491159/normal_603a1afbcd102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4484821/normal_5ffdc313ef3d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489041/normal_5fe99a97dbe1f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383470/normal_6014414c1be60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4427529/normal_601704d90eca6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456699/normal_5fd3797bdba47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404502/normal_5ffb9e3bcc1de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412999/normal_5fdc2b358ebcb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452217/normal_5fe9caf1ad37d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451940/normal_602b32f03ebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370762/normal_603538dab38e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465702/normal_601a63a308098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388041/normal_5fd908e6dc29f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411503/normal_601ebf762631a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/be283eb0-e5b2-4ad8-833b-4a1a1b652ff7/76499877015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/05516575-6e14-4101-8321-a6adb6acf323/is_brook_strong_one_piece.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6d706a39-1f93-4f1a-9423-caccf7e65e71.filesusr.com/ugd/69f91f_5203fce2c08a4b3bbe43b7d4005bbddb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/17f98587-dedc-442b-8117-db9a0f8925e2/cycleops_fluid_2_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1a294562-40b7-4fbd-bb2e-5fef0be71fb2/modunaseripomige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://35e1cc1d-5f6c-4a41-9b1b-b9ae8dddc97a.filesusr.com/ugd/351eee_ce2099c70ad54da19980b5c6bfe42f4a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0fdd9f25-8366-4660-9463-376fd915ad39.filesusr.com/ugd/c16cf9_b41b85db77a54ff68c7dac433a043af2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1a130103-9685-4849-bd12-8ae8e59b103e/the_secret_life_of_pets_3_idea_wiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/93bd222e-ed1b-4437-8815-0a1cb73fc05f/sony_icd-px440_vs_px470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cec73e31-d906-427f-967c-9ca462567bfe/arduino_uno_r3_programming_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/774271c9-4952-4a5a-8597-fabfcd245967/22855286031.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA7 5156 bytes
SHA-256: 48eec9779694b53697a189f48639140e2f2833084e6c719c26e40e3425f99d4c
font_01_sfnt_off00010044.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10044 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 35b91ffaba7749c44075f6aa10d9e137a517603f7cf5cc66f0359b2e8f6a20de