Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc3fd5072b0447b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.1 KB Created: 2021-10-20 11:04:51 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: c1b89e7946a9cc669f1d12853df0a28f SHA-1: 8366ddd8685b8696ed070e381f05e8a7bb7377a1 SHA-256: dc3fd5072b0447b019ae8f82312395646ed23631437b95650aed917ddc7bd45c
64 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 campaigns. It contains a deceptive link pointing to 'yughcegwme.updta78-serv1ce.info', which is likely intended to host a malicious payload or phishing page. The PDF's structure and the presence of this suspicious URL strongly indicate a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.2062

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 10 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://yughcegwme.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_off0000155b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155B 12396 bytes
SHA-256: 9651c78dad64c31681e27aaf77368dfa0aab65a72df78104afb2fc8edab34c59