Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7a1aa4564a72534…

MALICIOUS

PDF

27.8 KB Created: 2021-05-28 10:37:17 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: 2cb8f65e82c964ee1e97d3ece7a0ccdf SHA-1: 298a151f1d2fdd6caab95672f613b58a013192d5 SHA-256: f7a1aa4564a725341bac7b7d6af69d51d7dd94e9fa513fb960821667ddb67546
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical of phishing campaigns, which contains a clickable link directing to a URL shortener. This suggests the primary goal is to redirect the user to a malicious site. The use of a URL shortener is a common tactic to obscure the final destination and evade basic URL filtering.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.1153

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 27 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://dlydruzei.page.link/AvmB 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_off00005bf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BF0 12396 bytes
SHA-256: 9651c78dad64c31681e27aaf77368dfa0aab65a72df78104afb2fc8edab34c59