Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55e992861be8ce6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.5 KB Created: 2021-06-22 21:01:36 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b60d00cda658c5a2854f427650753058 SHA-1: ccde0507efb114692a9a5480ac88eb9665588748 SHA-256: 55e992861be8ce6c054f6ee2f1cc55615315c874c61295a6f112ad9f5f58bd62
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains multiple links designed to lure users into downloading game hacks and cheats for popular games like Roblox and Minecraft. The primary link directs to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content or downloads. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a social engineering attack aimed at tricking users into compromising their systems.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9906

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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.co/app/431946152/hacking-download-for-roblox-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://www.clooetherattorneys.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/free-roblox-rip-offs_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clooetherattorneys.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/websites-to-get-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clooetherattorneys.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/free-robux-hack-no-human-verification_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clooetherattorneys.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/coin-master-hack-tool-2021_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clooetherattorneys.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/hacked-client-for-minecraft-bedrock_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clooetherattorneys.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/how-to-get-minecraft-coins-for-free_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text