Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35499bbbef2878bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-04-25 07:11:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c79a493b1606016b817adc09d54fdd4a SHA-1: 3709c60a2b5cf9140689534a9116906e3c1d3564 SHA-256: 35499bbbef2878bc733ff39ebc577a1c4fc8c20d12631e8bfb677cd43e4fb2b1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body contains text related to 'Us army reserve officer training', suggesting a lure. Numerous embedded URLs point to various domains, many of which are likely part of a link farm or phishing infrastructure, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/dakatiwilu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/sixativitav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/54125375098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/zabufenopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/30232074114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/41345860665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/35757612566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/kimakevenowafuxopepasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/81254010544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/28695523124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/34782296767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/28941778760.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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=us+army+reserve+officer+trainingPDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/42655509772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/mizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/midari.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_off0000d3d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D9 5108 bytes
SHA-256: 0d43f4725f3bc8e340dd97b237771747515342eef0ec53ec957c9a2ed9911303
font_01_sfnt_off0000e52e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE52E 9936 bytes
SHA-256: b78fba364f28de1fdc98053e126eabc6b5e3365608ec85d2ff6429d92731793e
font_02_sfnt_off0001072d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1072D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e