Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 185109d9e93055d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2021-05-04 18:49:39 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 7ad1b44c058ccdae404da25be7e9284a SHA-1: 3e949675864009a0f3718e3aef51bb911488ab1e SHA-256: 185109d9e93055d35952c1dcd84c776c832b8ea77ba80b5c640548f2aa6cb620
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to a lure for 'free Roblox hacks'. This link, https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/best-free-roblox-hacks-game-hack, is known to be associated with malicious infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, also contains references to this URL and appears to be a lure for game-related cheats or hacks. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious links and the ML classifier's high confidence suggest a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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/best-free-roblox-hacks-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://www.technibuild-group.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/guess-that-song-cheat-list-roblox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.technibuild-group.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/survey-information-sheet-for-free-robux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.technibuild-group.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/roblox-cheats-xbox-one.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.technibuild-group.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/free-robux-no-offers-or-human-verification.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.technibuild-group.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/free-goku-clothes-roblox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.technibuild-group.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/how-to-hack-somone-roblox-unpachable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.technibuild-group.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/free-robux-no-task.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technibuild-group.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/roblox-free-bloxburg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.technibuild-group.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/roblox-promo-code-hack-robux-pastebin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.technibuild-group.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/code-for-generate-free-robux.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
stream_003_off00004189.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x4189 28312 bytes
SHA-256: 2575570aad6fd8f669a625caa098473e5ba2c1d0476017755e8e38b97ededc9a
font_01_sfnt_off00007dbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DBD 18452 bytes
SHA-256: c3b2120c484f8ffbc357a1a81e0605f797598757801264d57dcc8781e9e3d785