Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e4ab749a48c682f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2021-05-10 12:04:17 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 011e7c8cfbd85e2d460b6ed3a464070f SHA-1: c5d6ea409ab1e56639112d7eb8f8c0b827abe859 SHA-256: 7e4ab749a48c682f1c9906cedc0f9422c7cefe9bee6c678977b514251b0dd26d
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a lure for free game currency and displays a fake CAPTCHA, prompting the user to click a link. This link, 'https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/how-to-get-free-robux-on-android-game-hack', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document's structure and content strongly suggest it's designed to facilitate the download of additional malicious content or lead the user to a phishing site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Fake CAPTCHA / human verification prompt high SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA
    Document displays a fake CAPTCHA or human-verification prompt — used to trick users into running commands or pressing keyboard shortcuts
  • 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/how-to-get-free-robux-on-android-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_off000034cf.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x34CF 25504 bytes
SHA-256: a24211ccbdcc57a543b5ab23f4da58b742887257b93c6366d34147a8292e43f9
font_01_sfnt_off00006efa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EFA 18576 bytes
SHA-256: be12fe34256d848f1a7db569f7882c3333b0548de7731ecd127307da0fa566a6