Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68fe68f9d2c7985a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2021-05-22 11:18:58 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d6998176150ca77709f119b3fa61bf9b SHA-1: 70f8dbc589889e0dcb8e237e32b9af911537de2f SHA-256: 68fe68f9d2c7985a8a4ef80b28f41e7e2e9a452a6887d036cd65f36393cc7ec9
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs that redirect to malicious infrastructure, masquerading as game hacks or generators. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure for free game resources, which is a common social engineering tactic. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7268

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/406889139/coin-master-free-coins-and-spins-app-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://agritrade-ukraine.com/images/free-robux-working_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agritrade-ukraine.com/images/apps-to-get-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agritrade-ukraine.com/images/coin-master-free-spins-save_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agritrade-ukraine.com/images/free-tiktok-followers-no-human-verification-or-survey-2021_GM835599320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agritrade-ukraine.com/images/minecraft-xray-hack_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00003252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3252 25088 bytes
SHA-256: f32270259e8d10d38e120fb11e8c7fff968248e1771ec7ddd634f6678cb4775c
font_01_sfnt_off00006b66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B66 2896 bytes
SHA-256: c1a618813a64314343402b2ec738fc11c4c912460a4c7ae3029924d2f9a229cd
font_02_sfnt_off0000754b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x754B 18060 bytes
SHA-256: f77ee24e01944806ea28e16fd73427a54f7109e241804df06ce657d8c6d11cfb