Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06e43b1986f566f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2021-05-12 10:31:22 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 346bb4f369ed196f9f3e935462a8de17 SHA-1: fccedcaf4c9bbd3d5e711e8474ee7741422b4fd6 SHA-256: 06e43b1986f566f9c6b1f71dc5fcee943fac72105a139724a709a533eea4b094
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, disguised as a 'free Robux generator' lure. The document body and heuristic firings confirm the intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are sufficient to indicate a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0128

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/how-to-get-free-robux-no-human-verification-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off00003432.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3432 25000 bytes
SHA-256: cb7a3d26207c6ad9722d9d5f8f177940ac624b5bf2c9fbb6ecafc8ce438cdfd3
font_01_sfnt_off00006ca7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CA7 3884 bytes
SHA-256: 40b61f8938bd710dc29dc58ba3fde91c245a6a69596ec569b4d27c769ca417cf
font_02_sfnt_off0000794f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x794F 19024 bytes
SHA-256: add4238412854312c544fb77f8d10d54d15c3f72dfb550af23f9090805c2c756