Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a0e3ec4aa3b3fd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.9 KB Created: 2021-05-12 09:02:37 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 4ff3db75e540d0a03a1c72499e4bd14b SHA-1: f6571e46214f2e9a0df04b66875a8ac74d3e60ba SHA-256: 2a0e3ec4aa3b3fd937485eac89fd4b386e564642ae0808ee0baa094d6864dc88
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a high-confidence heuristic firing for a game hack redirect lure, pointing to a URL that promises free Robux. The document body also contains similar text and the same URL. The presence of a password-protected archive lure suggests the linked content may be a payload. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0306

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to a 'free generator / game hack' redirector high 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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 https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/how-to-get-free-robux-on-roblox-game-hack PDF link annotation
    • 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_off00003093.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3093 23796 bytes
SHA-256: 9a0c3d096636d71597d5bad393bd9db64f0f96da4353e414af2d85efe1664603
font_01_sfnt_off00006684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6684 18356 bytes
SHA-256: 07f7f5fe088ebb6a81b9aca0d3b7acb37488304f642f9e675d153fcc87cea6c5