Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 088f6b918398eea9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2021-05-14 06:01:50 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 31776a558d4b0ace71276831d20dd491 SHA-1: 207ce75a10350195c21682f58b76e8493b492a2b SHA-256: 088f6b918398eea91c19620fe66179cceb457bc4b3c7ce75a309dc157c16c43f
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains multiple embedded links that lead to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, disguised as a 'free Robux generator' or 'game hack'. The document body explicitly mentions 'Get Free Robux Today' and 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS ROBLOX GENERATOR', reinforcing the lure. The presence of these links and the deceptive content strongly indicate a phishing or scam attempt designed to lead users to malicious sites.

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/get-free-robux-today-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
font_00_sfnt_off000032bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x32BB 24004 bytes
SHA-256: c8d1f951db68ba2d90b584694357a59dd12563e8656978ea2eb7de8b25b4fc2f
font_01_sfnt_off000069c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69C2 7272 bytes
SHA-256: f462303657ce1de10d3e7d5ae1fe17c8584116bd5bc216971166de87266da924
font_02_sfnt_off00007b33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B33 18700 bytes
SHA-256: b843f73b4bd8c826713a813afccd99a06030f2bdc38aa1865c4ca07f2f1b4e6b