Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3763e507e31b24ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

29.0 KB Created: 2021-07-20 11:13:20 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: c4adea5c2c2981ffd8d850c8816a307e SHA-1: 825c045618f5d8af89f268a2999feb6ef16bce3d SHA-256: 3763e507e31b24edaa0df0ab0de75362fc2cb1c11d6c42a1442d852847a05c6b
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains a lure for a 'Minecraft Hack Mod' and a prominent 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS MINECRAFT GENERATOR' call to action. This link, along with other embedded links, redirects to a known malicious infrastructure at http://netcdn.tw/app/479516143/minecraft-hack-mod-game-hack, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document's structure and content strongly suggest it's intended to trick users into visiting a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0570

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 http://netcdn.tw/app/479516143/minecraft-hack-mod-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_off00001dfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DFE 22612 bytes
SHA-256: 2a4a110c89a41f657837271d55e63daacdfc4945c2c03ff09db7cd92567c0c9f
font_01_sfnt_off00005063.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5063 18056 bytes
SHA-256: c98163390533840513273057c02ab8b0002c23ddfc36b9b9583c7d176bc18763