Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5981cbebf2939350…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-04-05 00:43:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 8242b4686f98846898a0a5a2acb52528 SHA-1: 52b229947eedb339039a4b667a2d67494a7cdbef SHA-256: 5981cbebf29393500c762ccec2551d6a4179bb016aa6bf4ecb4cd8867c97c5be
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs, with one pointing to 'jacksth.ru', suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create malicious PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 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=kenmore+110+washer+service+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://tokio-2020.fun/wosomop93f81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4453730/normal_6009921d03b3e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liketsven.xyz/are_the_harry_potter_movies_just_like_the_books67iat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404750/normal_603cb1d749203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carins.info/the_great_gilly_hopkins_movie_summaryez2fe.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/712174c9-e088-471f-9680-8ceb40c09c84/game_of_thrones_books_vs_show_which_is_better_reddit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/timituvupame/52267379149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/napejaxosinages/labuzopesotavefiwele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sudonek.epizy.com/rojovinalikovumenud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a61f271-0bcb-4373-844b-17c4d0cb8aef/jipijanuvogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dowexibagodi.epizy.com/25283883300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fifelokorosimo.rf.gd/nys_cdl_road_test_points.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fejiremow.epizy.com/fintrac_reporting_address.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3d42210c-d95c-44c7-814e-ecc1d0ca48c6/do_keurigs_have_warranty.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenuvuzawo.epizy.com/accounts_receivable_process_flow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4b97fc6b-bb36-4025-8ca8-7d9b283fab07/pebble_watch_2012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rekamotavu.rf.gd/cours_anglais_gratuit_debutant.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5d6a7fa3-99b8-4472-86d9-14d347d2ab17/is_amazon_prime_worth_it_2020_uk.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA33 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 802cdf4900734c572b616700087b379ba6d6186a200bd7af7066c8e1a6b3e38b
font_01_sfnt_off00010c5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C5B 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 784d015061313ed6aefb82eb574b5e1c4e56e31241e075a4059e9fae393a32a3
font_02_sfnt_off000132c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132C7 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 541fa2b6826b0add99b7d5a173ef1e6a5567607b5192f75b810eb17d6a563501