Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a698cef8367c78a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-03-09 08:22:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 56ddee3cb800bcd67c85eadf8484e352 SHA-1: 9e148ec7fde1e96bf7a7e9632a96ca5a76dfaa43 SHA-256: 5a698cef8367c78ae3db184e6ca1a7f532e3f37f19a35815650fc5dff3eae1c1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, indicating it is a phishing or trojan delivery attempt. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with a primary suspicious URL being https://jacksth.ru/123?utm_term=interpreting+graphics+worksheet+answers+biology, which is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The document's structure and embedded links suggest it functions as a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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/123?utm_term=interpreting+graphics+worksheet+answers+biology PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4422658/normal_60029de88750e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476930/normal_6015b227570f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368479/normal_6013490439e60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4407062/normal_5fc7611cf1adb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471273/normal_601e80a219735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457281/normal_5fd670e29a4fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidufamipowanot.mywebcommunity.org/beats_by_dre_studio_2_wireless_outside_exterior_panel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379482/normal_5fe9b8a39c4f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xomunuxeju.sportsontheweb.net/the_birds_and_other_stories_daphne_du_maurier.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonemisi.medianewsonline.com/1994_s10_wiring_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371514/normal_6046bd3ad3c8f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448545/normal_5fd779c69d0e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://656adf98-7a81-40bd-8d0f-2b9c27d09201.filesusr.com/ugd/268ab1_d8f56877b0694980aadfc716efbf71a3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sorapobuk/80840378844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/woneketelak/kinoromuliwexokeriteko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d5a063e1-c91b-4897-b754-23a24b5212d3/31105957126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jokubamobivavum.onlinewebshop.net/mojuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/24ee169b-3ded-43cb-a32f-629d36356fac/nokekavababetusome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://97a45c9e-1ab5-462a-bfe2-fded34b9a8b9.filesusr.com/ugd/b50c55_e9ca48bbc14944aaae11c6a64bcdd837.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d5f1d3db-1598-48d0-a061-764c190a6564.filesusr.com/ugd/866690_aaab5edefdeb456eb75936ec440da87d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/muvemasoxaji/selememileranulosizenotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/megelugik/memu_emulator_for_32_bit_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fizaxo/jemurixevovox.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000124e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124E7 2828 bytes
SHA-256: b7f317aa0f29cd34df008dc84d8f376d2685882a57a4a5cd0d86477d0adf885a
font_01_sfnt_off00012ee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EE2 5532 bytes
SHA-256: c071952e2cd827db2b2fbc0e03e685af4646c1ec31e9c015f1d27381b62f25b8
font_02_sfnt_off000141c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141C0 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 9cc8e71d8f151bca00324f17fd5544b911be788d78b7668888dab2a3da47edcc