Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acb13d5f43f919bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

129.1 KB Created: 2019-06-20 01:48:28 -11:00 Authoring application: ZI¹ÛË üˆÝBÔ?5ú¿q7͹?G€$¿± 6VS (via óØ`\ì«Ñ›¸LMqÛ§ÃòtÔO"†n>ù=ðŸ´ôœ8¾‡Bølf) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: e6bcb080841be1d356d50cb18ef0e136 SHA-1: f175a1eec52791fcb5ba76eb061a8393783630da SHA-256: acb13d5f43f919bb3c3fbf19c9909558095d670bd0e65795c647dba4f499044b
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 or distributing malicious content. It contains a single embedded URL that uses a URL shortener, which is a high-risk indicator. The URL leads to a benign destination according to the analysis, but the pattern strongly suggests malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier suspicious score 0.3014

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 129 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://bit.ly/3yuG0tJ In PDF document text