Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13cceccf8be19dc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 09:27:37 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: ddb8c2fe1739678ac66f4646271a5dbe SHA-1: cb092ac36804cfa52164ac7159b5628d4e237809 SHA-256: 13cceccf8be19dc48e8dba6449f611c2ed9d7d0891c2b20e8646edb1d6f979e3
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous external links disguised as offers for free in-game currency and accounts, impersonating brands like Microsoft. The ML classifier and heuristic firings strongly indicate a credential phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure for free Robux and other game-related cheats, likely leading to credential harvesting or the download of a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 5

  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: http://netcdn.tw/app/431946152/how-to-get-free-robux-no-human-verification-20212021-game-hack.
  • 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
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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 http://netcdn.tw/app/431946152/how-to-get-free-robux-no-human-verification-20212021-game-hack PDF link annotation
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/how-to-get-minecraft-for-free_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/como-hacer-hacks-en-roblox_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/free-roblox-accounts-with-robux-that-work-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/coin-master-hack-online_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/free-robux-hack-no-human-verification-or-survey_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/free-robux-generator-2021-no-survey_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/coin-master-free-download_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/give-me-some-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sb-game-hacker-coin-master_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roblox-cheat-elemental-battleground_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/free-spins-coin-master-blogspot_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/free-robux-without-no-verification_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/how-to-get-free-robux-on-mobile_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/how-to-get-free-robux-for-doing-nothing_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/hack-coin-master-apk-download_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/coin-master-free-spins-for-today_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/free-robux-no-verification_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/how-to-hack-some-one-with-cookies-roblox_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/coin-master-online-hack_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf.nationalbreedingcenter.bz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/how-to-get-free-robux-codes-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn 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
font_00_sfnt_off00003533.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3533 22640 bytes
SHA-256: f84ca5680003e67cfd056ac247bd5a39ff1ea5f7668cc58e22d9304c11a0add4
font_01_sfnt_off0000674e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x674E 19712 bytes
SHA-256: a4f8b8f2386bd403d4071fa8995adba15d04317f42808ca6843db839a587bc3a