Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 751298e929881415…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.8 KB Created: 2021-05-10 11:18:30 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 7b629994eef0036ed6f146a3c177ebf3 SHA-1: d6a74a81cfe3698b330648450b1c36211eeb71a2 SHA-256: 751298e9298814151765b332b64956b25c8b460df86a92f462ac31548e51ed1e
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically targeting users with a 'free generator / game hack' lure. The embedded URL, https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/claim-gg-free-robux-game-hack, is associated with known malicious infrastructure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to a potentially harmful site, likely as part of a phishing or scam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0127

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/claim-gg-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_off0000321d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x321D 25288 bytes
SHA-256: 3b10e6b34f726393ffb5063cf8109111a99013f3aba9c5375712a1a4faeedee6
font_01_sfnt_off00006a1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A1D 2880 bytes
SHA-256: 10d025f04f706eb71cdda4f99784df1b9ccb52e48080e43095e0398eaef6f132
font_02_sfnt_off00007407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7407 18984 bytes
SHA-256: f4ec7cc5ac7357ae04b81b01f4f60b03f50baf34e575c591e7a4d82bee829dbe