Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a6b8c10f2762e9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

22.1 KB Created: 2021-06-05 09:03:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: 46add0f9a9a5b7c9d509b273f6298b73 SHA-1: 8da179a916530e9b1c4eea62ce729dc0e35f940a SHA-256: 4a6b8c10f2762e9a74f12ae7e60d70eac5578d2408c6a5a5a23934df3fc2820d
82 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, containing a single image and a clickable link disguised as a button. The embedded URL, https://dozodor.page.link/9NY3, is likely intended to redirect the user to a malicious site. The malformed stream length heuristic suggests an attempt to hide malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.1241

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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 22 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://dozodor.page.link/9NY3 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_off00004514.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4514 12396 bytes
SHA-256: 9651c78dad64c31681e27aaf77368dfa0aab65a72df78104afb2fc8edab34c59