Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f9317c0bf5ce319…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.9 KB Created: 2021-05-11 17:32:40 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 8f6b8a2cebf40a0e05f8f68456e68271 SHA-1: ee8bf89f45755ebda9c3ccad949b1b2f95fc094c SHA-256: 5f9317c0bf5ce319d09c67358b9c6051abf48fe31e1316603ac6838146b73f0e
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to a malicious redirector disguised as a game hack generator. The document body explicitly mentions 'How To Hack Roblox To Get Free Robux' and contains a call to action to access a 'ROBLOX GENERATOR'. This strongly suggests a phishing or scam attempt designed to trick users into visiting a malicious URL, likely to download further malware or engage in credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334

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/how-to-hack-roblox-to-get-free-robux-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
stream_003_off00003123.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3123 25676 bytes
SHA-256: 7727af9aa1ad04f77842364877379808286fb05d60ec8b8eac98add6c9406a6b
font_01_sfnt_off00006d54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D54 18756 bytes
SHA-256: a768fd9037f2962d7d468f6b0310abba3890de72b41426d235b5de2790bab1ac