Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 784be2ae9200d8d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.1 KB Created: 2021-06-11 01:49:15 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 3ef22882b014872b1427c0bc00b7db08 SHA-1: 596accaccdcd0b2be9bce2c39ed1565037660726 SHA-256: 784be2ae9200d8d556e081278a11328917f82fc0bd2c80057dd5204193ac906d
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a lure for a "Robux Hack" and directs the user to a malicious URL. The document body and heuristics indicate a social engineering tactic to trick users into visiting the provided link, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of a clipboard command lure suggests an attempt to prompt the user to execute commands, likely to download and run a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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.tw/app/431946152/copy-and-paste-to-terminal-robux-hack-game-hack In PDF document text