Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60280235348b86d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-06-08 09:31:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 0b30b248740032ebe2f7b9d8d9dc800a SHA-1: 40f77d2d343ecc2865842964825458d11b2aa5ea SHA-256: 60280235348b86d6c10c781e5ceb9555aee52dddc54fa8252345d916cad153de
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one prominent link pointing to 'https://oniceh.ru/pbw?utm_term=how+to+register+cia+exam', suggesting a phishing lure related to exam registration. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to exam registration and application details, reinforcing the phishing pretext. The presence of multiple external URIs and its classification as a link farm indicate a high likelihood of redirecting users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://oniceh.ru/pbw?utm_term=how+to+register+cia+exam PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389601/normal_6031e7c26f923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4501374/normal_6004ebbf38d11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373999/normal_606b15ce43ea0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372384/normal_5fd658e6908c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4370059/normal_5ffb3e61b127a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4498702/normal_6050075a6c057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416143/normal_6034dc42c7c13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374535/normal_60badae623dbd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481847/normal_603fb1593154f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://kemulosomul.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144654774/61755797661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zemilenasi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144572025/canon_mf3110_driver_windows_10_x64_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawamotijeku.pbworks.com/f/96871184603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusavivo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144710121/5331874452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuwedateredu.pbworks.com/f/57241670770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5685603c-4ec0-4477-9090-41ec7dcf9ab2/5605395857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiboduxoguv.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144556947/how_to_open_samsung_ce0168_back_cover_youtube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jazonewu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144816798/73900989050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/75451360-2e7a-4568-9828-9ff6ecb27e02/a_peoples_history_of_the_united_states_1492-present_by_howard_zinn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatakalewene.pbworks.com/f/12304130712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapixesut.pbworks.com/f/lelaxexidedopiwikevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadisizaze.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144668055/from_dictatorship_to_democracy_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rugewenuzed.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144741690/castle_defence_2_mod_apk_3.2_2_unlock_all_heroes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pagorevet.pbworks.com/f/kreyszig_functional_analysis_solutions_chapter_9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wozixokumo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144434604/online_virus_scan_android_tablet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pajinap.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144496203/divina_commedia_canto_1_inferno_parafrasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuzidezidaxi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144842508/exercicios_sobre_circunferencia_e_circulo_8_ano.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_off00012ccd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CCD 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 170c2f808efca8ed2718263a825ed02f664cbda62a542d2f43df87b836e125ee
font_01_sfnt_off00013e87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E87 11564 bytes
SHA-256: 727e91afaa2e4f2873fde5ecaf29e27e7320056af67a311965423357b4753666