Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 276a34f397cf4bec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-05-11 11:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e02adb1d09b08b60affb8350a8d26cdb SHA-1: 5e6e126f98e75b5258b0d6600f508ad813db3ece SHA-256: 276a34f397cf4bec95bd2a3b136e69740c631c4356e60722253d1a0d861f87ef
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO abuse tactic. One of the primary URLs, https://jacksth.ru/strik?utm_term=trap+painting+with+a+twist+dallas, is likely part of the malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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
  • 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.
  • 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=trap+painting+with+a+twist+dallas PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jakibefivi/sgMgcha/camp_chef_woodwind_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vonosupaxeme.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740497/povinefupunegogev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piximemob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134371032/a148f19f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rudunusom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134602981/mufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sigisuzuk.getenjoyment.net/84767573288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kagelemovo/haljcou/jazewixizufap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bipobulif/hbhgjde/duwoketadexerazibigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446635/normal_60342da9d27fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xesapuwax.mywebcommunity.org/rugby_world_cup_2020_fixtures_south_africa_time.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4380382/normal_5fcc389d8e1e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fopokefizig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525302/nixero-botitovixukod-tojan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bitubebo/hihehgI/srs_for_hotel_management_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481516/normal_5ffe962543535.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/8d860c3d-9440-4394-909f-310ef8e2d9f6/sorezikukopazodasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/126b92f5-4dfb-4b4d-87be-3b7f29bfa4a7/varenevewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/67e1117d-1a7e-4d8d-9000-0e307d06ec64/taylormade_r15_430cc_driver_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8a580b79-0fb9-4114-8e4d-cb8836aa27bd/what_are_the_7_chronicles_of_narnia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/edd9750d-b52a-4b6a-8424-012b9042fbe7/how_to_start_an_essay_about_book_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/303261ca-d830-4707-8353-b7cbdd5dc772/60037314867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suxazetevuzo.onlinewebshop.net/florida_general_affidavit_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/59396aa5-262d-4f44-9571-e8e50b05c146/how_to_update_lg_tv_firmware.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_off0000d7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A3 5260 bytes
SHA-256: 80d76b2418a0d0c6d41111627bc92ba37af779bf916813180f1551ec8dd53aae
font_01_sfnt_off0000e995.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE995 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 221af62ce5796a33912594522ec8870ae22b010f2f67b05f08d2985fdc565844