Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 163c644456322e48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 00:55:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2c55655c53a3b9984d7b470c6131cb6b SHA-1: 6820a49f893d6afc3da7f78cb290f60801716b6b SHA-256: 163c644456322e484741f4c5ef326ecf33b8270c907627eb51d1ada3dde1a98d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a machine learning model and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests it's part of a link farm designed to host numerous potentially malicious files, with one such file being a PDF hosted on 'tcgardening.com'. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://tcgardening.com/userfiles/file/2021091707542573499.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.forteks.com.br/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/vebadamugudefamuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/bukaxuzivajixelopuxadak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artio.pl/files/files/gezijebotorutidebut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paron-rebondir.com/uploads/files/nujikiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detmers-kontejner.hr/files/71722583387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drddvichitra.com/userfiles/file/63312312345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riosemarescentrodemergulho.com/ckfinder/files/64697399997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409199cb8fb---nefupuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.net/slicice/file/duvekutibifake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anipetkingdom.com/webroot/img/files/panarugigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongkoo.com/uploads/editor/files/zomogapebuteloxetejun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webkapper.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24234020538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/90618248657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corising.info/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210907081503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dae-young.kr/upload/fckeditor/file/99544502165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archidaldegan.eu/userfiles/files/foninakesabenamuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thangmayedex.com/webroot/img/files/49576475509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/75442990313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demo.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/situpixifijideraxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signatureshreyas.in/userfiles/file/senubonibifegasisubipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48941095287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhhieu.vn/hinhanh/file/tivonolaxevoxesoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/tagemopibabolabokilepivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=diskdigger+file+recovery+apkPDF link annotation
    • 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://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_off0000daae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C5 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 27fff04f6ee4862b8b2128ba33ce646b68eb168636997b233f051bc183016c31
font_02_sfnt_off00010bd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD0 20732 bytes
SHA-256: 8822992ce93c86d03ba9d93f1fda21b12afb70ab8a6ebb58e4828ca04ade0f51