Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 814754be6cb62a3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.3 KB Created: 2021-05-12 07:03:44 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 44ffc470e401563cf23930deaa6b61e9 SHA-1: ab5ab5cd6942f803ada191a02e6224098942274d SHA-256: 814754be6cb62a3e8cb522b13658c9d60adb168d37c40d420066bbf90bb6ca61
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack redirect lure, pointing to malicious infrastructure. The document body explicitly mentions 'Free Free Robux' and 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS ROBLOX GENERATOR', reinforcing the lure. The embedded URL is known to be malicious, and while no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0312

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/free-free-robux-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_off000034a8.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x34A8 24700 bytes
SHA-256: 427f02977a97bbcffc56161e05c9feb97514b0ce908c26ecc7a501470b3e25e7
font_01_sfnt_off00006d69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D69 18012 bytes
SHA-256: 3ef9e48aa3d97d4217e004f7625a8cbae9320a74231b80a01553f6433e422360