Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f444d103e514142e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.8 KB Created: 2021-05-28 16:33:37 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: 8b3796f87f0f403d12966f18136c241c SHA-1: 96f0d09123adcc515217158dde1f251ac3317fa8 SHA-256: f444d103e514142e6fe9e982b599f4242bcdee0696b6b1ceaa87d0b6d9e5efbd
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was identified as an image-only lure, a common tactic for phishing or malware delivery. It contains a link through a URL shortener, which is a high-priority indicator of malicious intent. Although the document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0054

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 17 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://yesbaba.page.link/tV8u 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_off000029e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x29E9 15352 bytes
SHA-256: 80b151c7b4c124415ba8f6e55728d329057f2b894faad31d9541fe010992d5aa