Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa01596355e28c05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

27.1 KB Created: 2021-05-28 10:41:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: 6dd37b5113a24a8d6708175de37a124a SHA-1: be4f8034ebd604a41ec913399eed07e78f3e39ac SHA-256: fa01596355e28c0548066ec323fca8297f355a01056375943175bf042d279cd6
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, containing a single image and minimal text, designed to trick users into clicking a link. The embedded URL, https://svimn.page.link/fKXh, is a URL shortener, which is commonly used to obscure malicious destinations. The document's structure and the use of a URL shortener strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

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://svimn.page.link/fKXh In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C23 4500 bytes
SHA-256: 402bf721215bc392e091ba16814834d34511187abc4502f180db416847518463