Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d306ee31a093997…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2021-05-14 01:30:59 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 1fe3a630a4e199814a5d03089373ab53 SHA-1: 5c6765c12f91d4da6f52aaa5a79e234c01dca5fc SHA-256: 3d306ee31a093997dbf1a1c59292341f9373289ccb985c94f6daf55fe67599e1
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains a malicious link disguised as a "free generator / game hack" lure, which is a common social engineering tactic. The embedded URL points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and heuristics indicate a phishing attempt to redirect users to a potentially harmful site.

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/roblox-free-robux-no-human-verification-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_off000034af.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x34AF 25184 bytes
SHA-256: 94c64493417ee0e536d764412195618d3de30899687fcc35bd2e264ca2620161
font_01_sfnt_off00006ed4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ED4 18932 bytes
SHA-256: 9d302b82f438100f3cf39adb1b208b926e457e77310e02e89ba7e0c774768e38