Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b0c91e0d324b107…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.9 KB Created: 2021-05-20 19:07:31 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: ae4b749de05550716c87e9dedd0aec1d SHA-1: 52cf90d3079af762bff9df983d624f87124d8bb4 SHA-256: 4b0c91e0d324b107e1fc9c4e9a8efdb993a4617c98beec81d9e1ffcd8908c87c
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it's a malicious redirector lure, specifically targeting users interested in game hacks. The embedded URL, https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/free-roblox-executor-no-key-game-hack, is flagged as malicious and leads to a page promising a 'Free Roblox Executor No Key'. While no scripts were extracted, the document body and heuristics strongly suggest a social engineering attack to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0739

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/free-roblox-executor-no-key-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_off00002f58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2F58 27632 bytes
SHA-256: fa45a99ece2119ce5440ba222f07eb404dfe29e8388aa75bc9bedf8ed920ad0a
font_01_sfnt_off00006f01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F01 18372 bytes
SHA-256: dc47713ba6eb13f64d542fcf15a88c1c3b337790738a4cc5e94b1e08b5db33e2