Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b38edfae9ccd533…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.9 KB Created: 2021-10-09 14:15:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a250c6fe4eb6b3eb74bd56595e8f25fe SHA-1: 417012cb944172af06093329fb114041146400d0 SHA-256: 9b38edfae9ccd533c5d057b3eaca08c50171e2eb4aa15a8a4a94416d4040c76f
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file is an image-only lure, typical of phishing attacks, designed to trick users into clicking a link. The embedded URL, http://yughschlereffleesslndle.updta78-serv1ce.info, points to a deceptive host, strongly suggesting a phishing attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.1681

Heuristics 4

  • Image-only PDF lure links to a deceptive (typosquat) host high PDF_IMAGE_LURE_DECEPTIVE_HOST_LINK
    PDF is image-heavy with little real text and its clickable action targets a host that impersonates a security/service/brand word with a look-alike homoglyph substitution — a digit OR a confusable letter (e.g. 'serv1ce', 'servlce', 'upd4te', 'm1cr0s0ft') — on a domain that is not a known-good site. This is a credential-phishing / fake-update carrier shape: a screenshot-like page funnels the victim to a deceptive look-alike destination.
  • 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 7 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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 http://yughschlereffleesslndle.updta78-serv1ce.info PDF link annotation
    • 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_off00000c80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC80 12396 bytes
SHA-256: 9651c78dad64c31681e27aaf77368dfa0aab65a72df78104afb2fc8edab34c59