Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c2cb7e09562077b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

27.0 KB Created: 2021-05-28 10:42:55 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: b6f9e9423a6b7abc5a93ddc761038b9c SHA-1: 2586344dc91fc8ff6c90a44775852aae75f5cc74 SHA-256: 0c2cb7e09562077b98957baaab3e5e4ae37ed40081778cf866e2a56a61c6b05f
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, a common tactic for phishing or malware delivery. It contains a single embedded URL that redirects through a URL shortener, indicating an attempt to obscure the final destination. The document's structure and heuristics strongly suggest it's designed to prompt user interaction with a malicious link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.1153

Heuristics 3

  • Image-only PDF lure links through URL shortener high PDF_IMAGE_LURE_SHORTENER_LINK
    PDF is image-heavy with little real text and its clickable action points to a URL shortener. This is a high-confidence credential-phishing carrier shape: the visible page is a screenshot-like prompt while the destination is hidden behind redirect infrastructure.
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 26 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://znakudachi.page.link/q9Ku In PDF document text
    • http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfontshttp://www.fonts.comMicrosoftIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.aspxIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005beb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BEB 6180 bytes
SHA-256: 56a52b815ab1d3320d2b86f77abd9fd9ddb7ef0bf6f0425b132bd10f1381ab15