Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08226e52dab5cf27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2021-05-14 22:30:17 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 4c397a5620c663f44164c6bb5a62a0fc SHA-1: 75b1c1781884ddd67f2776c986bc3869981db1c4 SHA-256: 08226e52dab5cf27d47f26d6b1a45c6f93e05eaa1fa0b23ca208c34ef6659278
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains embedded text and links that promote a 'free generator / game hack' and explicitly instruct the user to 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS COIN MASTER GENERATOR'. This lure directs users to a known malicious redirector URL. The document's structure and content strongly suggest a phishing or scam attempt designed to entice clicks on malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0125

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/free-spins-coin-master-links-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_off00003464.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3464 24468 bytes
SHA-256: 20060fec1754e1218741e25c4c3d305948eeac96f3d8201cfc0dcb02e8705d1f
font_01_sfnt_off00006c8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C8E 8676 bytes
SHA-256: e06aca5f85e50ae6cefda302c5299c18ab6d27c174f74f0bb0ee8efa7ccb4468
font_02_sfnt_off00008119.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8119 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 07f1a9832fff0ce02b8ea8bcbd6448fb7022c7ac6c85a00fb5b887865844234a