Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 452c133f02caee0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-03-30 00:00:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 96f7accc39902fd36a51864a594b5896 SHA-1: 8489d3f124be382f1e280abf309b5272998916f3 SHA-256: 452c133f02caee0e681014165e32a7c1aaff871cfcb3bc2a3ae677f5d42b49aa
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The primary malicious URL identified is https://botokaw.ru/strik, which is presented as a driver download for 'Scarlett 18i8 driver windows 10'. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://botokaw.ru/strik?utm_term=scarlett+18i8+driver+windows+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mudinaxape/2F7mly2/greatest_rock_songs_about_love.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claire-irk.ru/pokemon_red_walkthroughe1pic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wodelaganav/dh19hbs/detorolegosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wejafivelij/G1aCiia/gamechanger_team_manager_community_pass.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonedomopoja.scienceontheweb.net/object_oriented_programming_java_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sabumow.mygamesonline.org/44735104852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vebuwovivulab.mygamesonline.org/6514173786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caterm.ru/wifasikolond88cq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://e0a971b2-7104-4718-9e5f-4f17d768618f.filesusr.com/ugd/6d43b6_2e224691251e4fcabd2d6ee0bb65a06a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f405dec1-7f90-4f4c-a861-5286f67d0127.filesusr.com/ugd/ab922d_58577a6ee0564b3fb7e7e781a111a26d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/286db349-3b62-4e90-8d14-332f6f583367/watch_youtube_on_roku_stick.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/312e0913-0da2-4911-8d66-b4b495d7ad63/six_types_of_text_structures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e79dab91-b8ca-4f03-a7cf-74564eaa1d8a.filesusr.com/ugd/009cd4_f353824cf5d74633b6a489e696803c4e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fac30f9c-1bc3-4ff6-ac40-7ced1d2a170b.filesusr.com/ugd/3b7182_547dd183279449148cfaf1b18b383fa2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4be8a7ba-6c9a-47a4-99fc-a5961b41a404.filesusr.com/ugd/132250_51e201057bc3403f96c2c427f9a0e627.pdf?index=trueIn 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF253 5364 bytes
SHA-256: c57c6f176737ada593a86ff3587f4b9aa11258acadfdf1011822d56227c15f10
font_01_sfnt_off0001049b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1049B 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 0bae228c0561c5e6bdb9210b108c4a4490f766a45a8dfc44712ce4c7546e4971
font_02_sfnt_off00012b9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B9C 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 532315dfdc59b350d447ad91845dd8cc72a836e684f536ab9a4305dc5b53fb8e
font_03_sfnt_off000140cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140CC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34