Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 813b77e730c022d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2021-05-14 17:35:57 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: d72b8de71c23cf65d783ccc4761b506d SHA-1: 6da761a768e920b9e52bbf1937e17046d5194bff SHA-256: 813b77e730c022d721b17771d237d673ead171fd2776d63274335eaa3e0ac26b
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a malicious redirector link that masquerades as a game hack generator. This lure is designed to trick users into clicking the link, which likely leads to the download of a second-stage payload. The document body text and heuristic firings strongly indicate a social engineering tactic to entice users to a malicious URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334

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/406889139/get-free-spins-coin-master-2021-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_off00003602.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3602 25036 bytes
SHA-256: c869b17226671b0674eac9934d20eb00e57b829342b15aa807abd487b4eb140a
font_01_sfnt_off00006fe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FE2 18288 bytes
SHA-256: b38ddf3080d7f2bc752da259c3b03eae0df146b085052c6419baf797dcf0dadb