Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6aaf58b7c5388a94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.7 KB Created: 2021-06-03 09:20:00 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fd6133d7c6e3d7535cfd32062b17e9ef SHA-1: 13edcf69366bdaa75743d9e73cb31413f17519cb SHA-256: 6aaf58b7c5388a947e474efc89b28c36ddf1a6e05c2ae45ed29c02adc0a67cb5
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link disguised as a 'free generator / game hack' for Minecraft, which redirects to a malicious URL. This lure is designed to trick users into clicking the link, likely to download malware or be redirected to a phishing site. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URL and the nature of the lure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9104

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 https://netcdn.online/app/479516143/download-minecraft-bedrock-game-hack In PDF document text

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