Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bef96f84533ed4eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-05-30 11:44:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0955510ff624516eb64bdf91c03976d4 SHA-1: 25911f7804d68e19128583b4c94bff58b2b242fd SHA-256: bef96f84533ed4ebc2119909e8c15ea3c1fc5316bc6eec945a2b4cb6b8781533
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, identified as a link farm and an SEO redirector, with the primary malicious URL being https://botokaw.ru/strik. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, and the presence of embedded URLs points towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=libro+pdf+los+demonios+del+eden PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4447098/normal_5ff65efdd2714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mozimokitazipa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407977/fe2321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4388416/normal_5fded0fe9f343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4391335/normal_60073dcabe96b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445564/normal_6028f9b29b182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finibolamojirum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135341575/33ecbe4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rofubedojatedo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134586725/kukat.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/5191cc12-59fc-4fb4-8cb4-f772fbaece03/buxitivojeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/578a01a6-f888-4cfd-942f-5e2106cc8dd3/draw_a_man_test_scoring.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7d63ba3f-b689-4699-affd-e592d715c823/60494556917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8c4aa634-c990-4b40-a53f-8851090da8f1/dawewom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/488bd6d8-096e-431e-99ec-89688e2e00ea/will_calisthenics_make_you_stronger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f489da27-f360-4f5b-9b81-7ac1833e4ec6/south_carolina_department_of_motor_vehicles_shop_road_columbia_sc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/db83d7a7-d08c-45fb-a9f4-fefedf1d527e/divine_mercy_chaplet_prayer_card.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1cff16d8-7785-4b99-bdb7-509f50e76a17/how_to_put_together_schwinn_ic4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4ddbd55b-bf22-4bff-a7a1-83152097d96c/70781984522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/24bfe515-76fb-4fa0-b3bc-d59325f41667/how_to_add_zotero_in_ms_word.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2bacf962-8134-4d52-ad55-f1aeda26bbb6/97701679799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8ed3748-b4a6-425b-bb63-e374290f64a4/wogizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e850e6fa-a5c7-4615-82bf-aba8496b17c5/15520016427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/19bb1615-19ff-4a00-8021-3bdc0fbf806b/78730045317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ee30416f-913f-4842-b9f3-54c030139bbd/what_is_the_role_of_nota_in_election.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d99ed212-dc44-48b1-9ba3-4e76e9aaa88b/65245276370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6b880434-0655-4c37-90d9-b4566aaa6205/book_titled_23_minutes_in_hell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/55a0964a-66c7-420d-9913-79d053e90b87/intro_to_business_communication_fbla_quizlet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c701e26a-0f86-47d8-8427-9301d67d8f0d/47520450872.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_off0000e6e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E5 5060 bytes
SHA-256: 743af5286653915b0fa7af24ec4176028c998b3215a2373aa601a75edbd5f31f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f803.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF803 11896 bytes
SHA-256: 1eecd00e17cd54fc0d44fe7f35fc842bb1a1a45cda4669954645a0234cf0d48a