Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e9f697feb388d39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.0 KB Created: 2021-05-21 13:39:43 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 95e5c3916c0c1a7c3262eab2cbc67d2c SHA-1: c8271587572715d53b4c038155a61a328c1c3546 SHA-256: 8e9f697feb388d399316343f98accfd34ee3b6e79c182bf769460f9ccd26ef08
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it's a lure for game hacks, specifically Roblox Robux, and links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The embedded URL 'https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/roblox-robux-hack-game-hack' is identified as malicious. The document body, though partially corrupted, also references 'Roblox Robux Hack' and the same URL, reinforcing the phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0739

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/roblox-robux-hack-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_002_off0000309d.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x309D 27800 bytes
SHA-256: 43c663d196ac917779ec070bf93c9f9bb4cedea87e5e525850591d76239df45a
font_01_sfnt_off00006fbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FBF 18320 bytes
SHA-256: fa424f86a9ddd472d540fc30f07119be4b576a9306b5f7bb82c207f2bb92a2b4

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