Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07d8a066fd4b5903…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2021-05-10 14:32:11 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: beec7332742d1d5ed878eba13dcbeee0 SHA-1: c138f567b9f26438c4fd9f36e7a8f6b82089c73d SHA-256: 07d8a066fd4b59035fab1c4048043273c327738184c21fa3103cfa836ec493b1
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack lure, directing users to a known malicious redirector URL. The document body and embedded artifacts also contain references to this URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The embedded URL is likely used to download a second-stage payload, which is a common tactic for malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0283

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/406889139/how-to-hack-coin-master-using-es-file-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_off000032e1.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x32E1 24700 bytes
SHA-256: 9dae4d0cd6e74d07ef62b20ed9efb3bcceb32fcc9ec3a2f0e1c43d965e342d39
font_01_sfnt_off00006b45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B45 18592 bytes
SHA-256: 7b6829f0c912f355393962c39643cd2cadf5d604c17bb92301d7763a729473f1