Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3395f37f6b19adb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.8 KB Created: 2021-05-28 16:35:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 6371bfe82995fe03c8cafa847fa867b5 SHA-1: e85faa799aaf4b71b1ab67219e4d99e190a635a4 SHA-256: 3395f37f6b19adb114da0a33df9907e3c792bd0022b76afe24aa7dfd753f31b3
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 campaigns. It contains a single embedded URL that utilizes a URL shortener, indicating an attempt to obscure the final destination. The heuristics suggest this is a phishing lure, likely leading to a malicious site or further payload download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0059

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 24 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://bestledy.page.link/vzkr In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000461e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x461E 15352 bytes
SHA-256: 80b151c7b4c124415ba8f6e55728d329057f2b894faad31d9541fe010992d5aa