Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76d0b070b2ec8cbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2021-05-14 04:34:45 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 727be7bcb28b8266ec779cdcc954cd9a SHA-1: 3b8f8c3162a0fe8c75aebd23d361cdb18821ef05 SHA-256: 76d0b070b2ec8cbc8af312f25f4496c798ed21085a68323e42ea8dcc4d650d5c
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains multiple links to external websites, including one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body and extracted URLs suggest a lure for game hacks and free in-game currency, which is a common social engineering tactic to drive users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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-hacks-2021-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ww-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10-free-spins-coin-master_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25-free-spins-coin-master_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/coin-master-heaven-daily-free-spins_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/coin-master-hack-pc-download_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/free-coin-master-gold-cards_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/coin-master-event-hack_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/free-spins-and-coins-coin-master_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/free-robux-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/robux-get-com_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/free-robux-rewards_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/www-roblox-com-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/unlimited-coin-master-free-spins_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/coin-master-free-spins-link-2021_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/coin-master-free-spins-save_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/can-you-really-hack-coin-master-ios_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/coin-master-card-collection-hack-apk_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/free-robux-groups-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/free-robux-with-no-survey_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.salcsinstallations.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/code-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn 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_off000048de.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x48DE 27184 bytes
SHA-256: 8a4431a4124d9970516e537c0f9a01212aa327050b4c2749554c215dca1f45f0
font_01_sfnt_off00008706.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8706 18584 bytes
SHA-256: 09e382df304bf090e7d4979f9a4a25aa7e11969d647bdc760e706e621b680adc