Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06d612a370705dba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.3 KB Created: 2021-05-11 00:32:16 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 0705468fbe508259df9a8711ba031f09 SHA-1: d58166abbc8c2274b33ba67360d20267c50942c8 SHA-256: 06d612a370705dbafa05abc1adb3230e3c7dc86a61bc86100bb5d9e1d52a6683
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack redirector lure, pointing to a URL associated with malicious activity. The document body and embedded artifacts also contain references to this URL, suggesting an attempt to trick the user into visiting a malicious site. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the lure indicate a phishing attempt, likely to deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0303

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/free-robux-group-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
stream_003_off0000322e.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x322E 26336 bytes
SHA-256: 10b304d8bee69ef8dd00be868ebcffe0934dd6621487e3250c8bbb26cdbb19bc
font_01_sfnt_off00006c9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C9F 18192 bytes
SHA-256: 388213afa323ee085de7e38d37e80f389e12e91d2d5a1b35e5038c11a526558f