Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a003445bea109fb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.4 KB Created: 2021-05-28 16:25:04 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: d3231c49b43ce0591f4779f79c3c8528 SHA-1: 5a0f8be12bcab21b421e83360069bbe38ccdcfc5 SHA-256: a003445bea109fb8c55204cb8712b235e9707de4606f27a09c5bd3ffa4ebb34f
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, designed to trick users into clicking a link. The embedded URL, 'https://bezplat.page.link/BS7x', is a URL shortener, which is commonly used to obscure malicious destinations. While the URL itself was flagged as benign, the overall pattern suggests a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0046

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 31 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://bezplat.page.link/BS7x 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_off000060a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60A1 15352 bytes
SHA-256: 80b151c7b4c124415ba8f6e55728d329057f2b894faad31d9541fe010992d5aa