Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 313a2b894e191a2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2021-05-15 15:33:08 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 4607866b8fcb7197f10117528757511d SHA-1: 4432a4ab0a0f3e87c5f3ad9c74d142625daca20f SHA-256: 313a2b894e191a2abca3f7856c0d6fe6b97cf78ddd5fccced58d745d34ce233c
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains heuristics indicating it is a lure for a 'game hack' or 'generator', linking to a known malicious redirector. The embedded URL https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/how-to-hack-roblox-for-robux-game-hack is identified as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the lure and the malicious URL suggest an attempt to redirect users to a site that likely hosts further malicious content or exploits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0265

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-hack-roblox-for-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
font_00_sfnt_off000030cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x30CF 24608 bytes
SHA-256: 122af6614965ab6126d0724c65e7012b0e9ed8282cc8f8bb054f18cda82d387e
font_01_sfnt_off0000696d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x696D 18648 bytes
SHA-256: 7689b6731d47fc176aef925fc5194a10a34d162e90d7014a3ccea13949bcaf7e