Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4967db1bc76a08c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2021-05-13 03:14:42 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 1a9f4ea401def90d2e93f61745edadd4 SHA-1: 20cfa55490425d33d272381001b38b2f6b247162 SHA-256: 4967db1bc76a08c0bf90017b3485a10c4b0d0c0e1f8770f7141d1c20fec88322
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack redirect lure, pointing to known malicious infrastructure. The document body also contains text and a link related to 'Play Full Version Of Minecraft For Free No Download' and 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS MINECRAFT GENERATOR', reinforcing the lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URL suggest an attempt to redirect users to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0128

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/479516143/play-full-version-of-minecraft-for-free-no-download-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000034d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x34D3 24776 bytes
SHA-256: 321161e13308698ad0f53b24c5f0501940cc3bac22f13e893835172e28eaa7af
font_01_sfnt_off00006d44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D44 2944 bytes
SHA-256: e8dca988325d5b5adea380508eed68725fcb814536e93cd420f224b7166adc23
font_02_sfnt_off00007770.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7770 18900 bytes
SHA-256: 72a4985a0f1854ed26b55ec1f9c271b843743081401250fa5f99a0b23226d3ed