Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 136c7eee7f138e64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.0 KB Created: 2021-05-12 01:45:51 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 4c5dd56f0a5cd83c93f02607580c55ee SHA-1: eb35d43c602446eed7a7d6e3dedc7d5f974c8cc2 SHA-256: 136c7eee7f138e64aa7744cf73b6cc5f05fabcea2b2eba408ee633538ac90859
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 malicious URL. The document body also contains text and a call-to-action phrase ('CLICK HERE TO ACCESS COIN MASTER GENERATOR') that reinforce the lure. The embedded URL is likely intended to lead the user to download a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0228

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-coin-master-spins-links-2021-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_off00003180.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3180 25548 bytes
SHA-256: 08d6eacd2daccb8b32e07edd8317a221bf46a015779d61237904d76d508476fd
font_01_sfnt_off00006ac9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AC9 18456 bytes
SHA-256: 1df78224994ee43a22d89536079f46dbccffe913f4ec8075feb5eac5cb57a7db