Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a962218d7b301de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2021-05-11 09:01:10 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 4a7eb789eb4d2cef131d2c5d692c89b5 SHA-1: 2c248c8c0d27aa6b58059e4628553d9bd6a2ef8b SHA-256: 6a962218d7b301de26822d4e212445992852178e2031f75b71ad774d711b26be
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack redirect lure, pointing to a known malicious URL. The document body also contains text and a link related to 'Roblox Land Free Robux' and a 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS ROBLOX GENERATOR' call to action, reinforcing the phishing pretext. The embedded URL is the primary indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0128

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/roblox-land-free-robux-game-hack In 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_off000033e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x33E1 25440 bytes
SHA-256: 65d7c089c8497c344719305ba9bb764d8c06bde03f798d7564d3d84152614461
font_01_sfnt_off00006efc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EFC 3120 bytes
SHA-256: 49734f51977507cba6bc8d3ad0cee0363aa119856db094427deb9cf565bb7bca
font_02_sfnt_off00007a10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A10 18492 bytes
SHA-256: dd1922fe1cc281356c7e312f91778e191ebdc244bf13f8823862483f595251c7