Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0598aa855aa44790…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2021-05-14 01:34:02 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 4c4da7709827c9ec7d2dd2c08abb8479 SHA-1: 544d7b338d4485fd04cf2fb9063c2e0edb588194 SHA-256: 0598aa855aa44790c45523fa9022338bf39afb158afdbcb8b1d1ba463f8a4898
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack redirect lure, pointing to malicious infrastructure. The document body text and embedded URL also reinforce this lure, attempting to trick the user into clicking a link. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the lure suggest an attempt to deliver a malicious payload or redirect to a phishing site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0313

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to a 'free generator / game hack' redirector critical PDF_GAME_HACK_REDIRECT_LURE
    PDF's clickable action targets a redirector of the form /app/<id>/<slug>-game-hack — the landing-page shape of a large SEO 'free spins / generator / game hack' lure family that funnels victims through rotating disposable hosts to a malware/scam payload. The multi-link variants also trip ML/link-farm rules; this catches the single-link variants that otherwise score clean. CRITICAL on its own: the /app/<id>/<slug>-game-hack path shape is unambiguous scam infra, and the host rotates so a host-list match can't be relied on.
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/roblox-prison-life-hack-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00003236.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3236 26960 bytes
SHA-256: 92c9c7e78ac9a02c988b132abe8d71bb7499e0d5e6e611c6664bcac74fcc5c8d
font_01_sfnt_off00006f36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F36 18456 bytes
SHA-256: 407d6fb8d9efb45a2b1cddcfd151d3a069902e857cdd2d484da7c19786549282

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