Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 438446656e27477d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.8 KB Created: 2021-06-05 09:07:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: 705b8d425aff61eb2c2415226e6ebc3c SHA-1: 50160616af1c2b6c85f9ba6ed46b2de3cdafe310 SHA-256: 438446656e27477d4b1927b692bb974efbf62b97e9f1b94594ff4e7ea35db3aa
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. It contains a link to a URL shortener, which is a high-risk indicator. The document's structure and the presence of a shortened URL suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious destination, likely for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0710

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 15 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://tersadoke.page.link/Fv8X 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_off00002bd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2BD4 12396 bytes
SHA-256: 9651c78dad64c31681e27aaf77368dfa0aab65a72df78104afb2fc8edab34c59

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