Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2faa61d410be735a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2021-05-21 20:12:25 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7adf6bbc440b66651c8ce2a744fd9b91 SHA-1: 70c76f075d5b92e065eca84b559e9c13ee1535c7 SHA-256: 2faa61d410be735a6f718f8c2aacb1835273734ad589d9304bbfe79e14941703
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious infrastructure, specifically promoting a 'free generator / game hack'. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Free Robux' and a URL that aligns with the heuristic findings. The primary purpose appears to be social engineering users into visiting a malicious site, likely to deliver a further payload or conduct phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0796

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/how-to-get-free-robux-easy-on-phone-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_002_off00002f9c.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2F9C 32308 bytes
SHA-256: 4659b700e5258cde3f1cacfe586e9f44752613e623778f3e85ae9762be103cff
font_01_sfnt_off00007819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7819 19008 bytes
SHA-256: e6e3347b6ae704c87521381cf50d1046861d1e5efe3155f159bfcc6a29e599dd