Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59ca3dec1c3d1094…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.7 KB Created: 2021-05-22 09:40:31 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a875b78a66df3a0c8d077226f6a76a7d SHA-1: 7c32113f5f04e2ed864bc3c63300643048321b5d SHA-256: 59ca3dec1c3d10947c210b3a5a4194d527229e218e07a542c9b55d553972738e
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains multiple links to known malicious redirectors and websites advertising 'free game hacks' and 'generators'. The document body explicitly mentions 'Minecraft Marketplace Free' and includes a call to action to 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS MINECRAFT GENERATOR', reinforcing the lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9508

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/minecraft-marketplace-free-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://fridaytravelnepal.com/userfiles/files/coin-master-online-hack-2021_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fridaytravelnepal.com/userfiles/files/how-to-get-free-spins-for-coin-master_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fridaytravelnepal.com/userfiles/files/free-spins-from-coin-master_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fridaytravelnepal.com/userfiles/files/coin-master-free-spins-twitter_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fridaytravelnepal.com/userfiles/files/coin-master-free-box_GM406889139.pdfIn 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_002_off000030ea.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x30EA 25484 bytes
SHA-256: e54895ccc33d86c2b8fd3726ee81c86da852bdac3a584052efb4d2afec436207
font_01_sfnt_off00006b10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B10 17988 bytes
SHA-256: b1962b8150a92058b1af596ee40f39d874ebba3a387c6f99a175120b94cdb42e