Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b7332b5a7aa8445…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.2 KB Created: 2021-05-12 17:31:18 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: a5dc48b6a5f7d82c70137d14ffc32f27 SHA-1: 51dda20176ccdde52e3c5007bb07591f793e1157 SHA-256: 6b7332b5a7aa8445708dd506d608afb859e0200ce46c48482280897ccf5232db
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 malicious infrastructure. The embedded URL, 'https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/roblox-com-free-robux-game-hack', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body and metadata indicate it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it might be a crafted lure page. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a malicious link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0306

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-com-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_off00002fd0.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2FD0 25040 bytes
SHA-256: 63a72abcb117a97ed9e89b2ee5f0efc23b1fa49bae010d0a340ad82d2cb5b2dd
font_01_sfnt_off00006807.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6807 18348 bytes
SHA-256: c296ce3e2e2a101d3e2a91d968c24b195b6c9a3a72cf9c6f74fe8dc429b2d5e3