Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5259e9200bbf49bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2021-05-15 05:03:54 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 22f2d81a0a8d39e4544a5700aeeb982e SHA-1: 104b6d40aa5976c9dff3b80354740dd967cd189a SHA-256: 5259e9200bbf49bbd1c8a9b14efba62a74ed7300ba06de7b7ab3dd2f0f0b6882
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious. It uses brand-impersonation credential phishing. The file routes users through malicious redirector infrastructure and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0128

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to a 'free generator / game hack' redirector high 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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/games-that-can-be-hacked-game-hack.
  • 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
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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/games-that-can-be-hacked-game-hack PDF link annotation
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off00003563.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3563 26732 bytes
SHA-256: 4af9e43fb6e1f120de4e8ef3d84af378d61269e4b964a2d2bd2fd6f119d92a12
font_01_sfnt_off00007314.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7314 2984 bytes
SHA-256: 889cfc2fd0afa9ea114d6666204c6ce0548d0aae2cba345827d317498c4c06bc
font_02_sfnt_off00007d3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D3F 18304 bytes
SHA-256: dfa8437c72db791aace135511bda9208016fcfe346c17eaaea4b366062f3a020

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