Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1800217b9c34962b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

30.4 KB Created: 2021-07-19 10:11:23 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: aa1c6bc2b3b72db8c5926cf93a957878 SHA-1: a68cc382de6a45ca005edec4368be65e576f58a7 SHA-256: 1800217b9c34962bba19a9bf425353539149a2f20e5a686a11e1cd3cd9416227
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to known malicious redirectors, disguised as a 'free generator / game hack'. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure to a website promising free in-game currency, which is a common phishing tactic. The embedded URLs likely lead to further stages of a malicious campaign, potentially involving exploit kits or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9467

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 http://netcdn.tw/app/431946152/hack-robux-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://moshaver-computer.ir/all_files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/free-robux-website_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moshaver-computer.ir/all_files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/how-you-get-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moshaver-computer.ir/all_files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/how-to-get-free-robux-without-verifying_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moshaver-computer.ir/all_files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/how-to-get-minecraft-pocket-edition-for-free_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moshaver-computer.ir/all_files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/how-to-get-free-robux-with-no-verification_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_off000021fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21FC 22588 bytes
SHA-256: 2bbb9d76e65bdf0b8c8a2250656a56213a1f63f04081bf0bb26887d7ffbe88c0
font_01_sfnt_off00005436.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5436 18432 bytes
SHA-256: 02af2aaaa36d5adc18e127424193c87fb896d1f2e6175a57ce63ca59ef207439