Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87a526a5c83cbf7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2021-05-16 20:00:52 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6dd12c84dec860da6c3a7b649b983d67 SHA-1: faf95ca09d57f2eaaa99da5e86fe966b02d4cd53 SHA-256: 87a526a5c83cbf7aac533ae7a0c35622a707a20fd85be26ef19b8eccaabd27f7
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains heuristics indicating it's a lure for game hacks and redirects to known malicious infrastructure. The embedded URL, 'https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/free-robux-quiz-game-hack', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body text also explicitly mentions 'Free Robux Quiz' and 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS ROBLOX GENERATOR', reinforcing the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0128

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-robux-quiz-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000033b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x33B2 25952 bytes
SHA-256: 21069c457fe1cdfd1c9b54fa7ec71cdbc3722553505a380acd7588649ce5d1bb
font_01_sfnt_off00006f1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F1F 2832 bytes
SHA-256: 77ae1c4cffa647a8fd533dfa4102e94364989f9e80b9cd131876e9d1005899a2
font_02_sfnt_off000078d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78D0 18376 bytes
SHA-256: b52519a3f27e6183245bec6d77d3cda93d913202ea7147b0d6d9048d316cd5fc