Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e3b19910d05d7bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 05:35:18 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: ee40989213d45d23122490aa33119a97 SHA-1: 69b4c70979b0f4f026ead3c058d358d95deb0d1d SHA-256: 5e3b19910d05d7bbd9dd4442218feb712beaa19f259deedd24251396410bb993
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to a malicious website, masquerading as a "game hack" to entice users. This is a common social engineering tactic to lure victims to potentially harmful sites. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of a malicious redirector and the lure text strongly suggest a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0126

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.tw/app/1330123889/pubg-uc-whatsapp-group-link-game-hack In PDF document text

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