Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2622f8b9380f2e1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB Created: 2021-05-13 05:05:18 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3a85dd3735ea765dd0677055f6c7b4e2 SHA-1: 27415ca925a0a549a33ac04d50b2ae1308ef9562 SHA-256: 2622f8b9380f2e1cda83b9b6de5d171a7211073e677774f6a1d8e9fc2f14e481
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a website promising free game currency ('Robuxy Com Free Robux'). This is a typical lure used in phishing and scam campaigns to trick users into visiting potentially malicious sites. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of malicious redirector links and a lure for a download, reinforcing the scam nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334

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/robuxy-com-free-robux-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_off0000364e.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x364E 25820 bytes
SHA-256: f1e42ce4daa8e648bc7f07c557fb78504fefaa0d2d4cb5e1a018dd1724d07ecb
font_01_sfnt_off000071e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71E0 18452 bytes
SHA-256: 502ad6067225007cfeab5155f8ca615546b56d7ab4478b734f537abd02c25d18