Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d7d80a16a97b139…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 04:38:03 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b4b33b02c9ab4d6ef36992655ea28471 SHA-1: ca008d7a8d47c27ec7f3004b77eed01723834bf7 SHA-256: 7d7d80a16a97b139219bb6e2e2fe3256af97a4d2633d79a2473c186e87ba74c0
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains multiple links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically promoting 'game hacks' and 'generators' as a lure. The heuristic 'PDF_GAME_HACK_REDIRECT_LURE' and 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' strongly indicate a social engineering attack aimed at tricking users into visiting potentially harmful sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the ML classifier's high confidence suggest a malicious intent to lead users to a compromised or malicious website, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://netcdn.co/app/431946152/weird-roblox-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/how-to-get-free-robux-gift-cards_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/how-to-get-free-robux-without-downloading-apps-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/coin-master-hack-apk-35-33_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/coin-master-15-free-spin-link-of-last-5-days_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/roblox-hack-ga_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/coin-master-free-spin-today_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/roblox-free-robux-scam-discord_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/mcpe-master-hack-coin-apk_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/free-robux-generator-no-human-verification-or-survey-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/how-to-get-free-robux-without-email_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/weird-roblox_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/how-is-tiktok-free_GM835599320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/minecraft-hacks-wurst_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/robux-generator-no-human-verification-or-survey_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/how-do-u-get-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/roblox-cheat-indetectable_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/coin-master-free-spins-link-no-verification-2021_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/free-robux-obby_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/free-roblox-hack-accounts_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advancissurgical.com/uploads/files/files/rbx-earn_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
font_00_sfnt_off0000303e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x303E 22440 bytes
SHA-256: 47fdddbebfe5bd359be001b2830e555213b6de293174a1b4cae803cf1df6d507
font_01_sfnt_off00006274.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6274 18980 bytes
SHA-256: f8e79d75c9f8241c011883426a9efa98c58f76f57b320e19fb1afa9fd63025a8