Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ec16be7dbce8f56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

195.2 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:48:37 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 9b104b7dea299770a24cf7f11f4b170a SHA-1: c92a76c6d3e2a8ec397432bde8e57e9fed28ccfc SHA-256: 8ec16be7dbce8f56ee4b8d0838a6169a994f909d3473390ca8c909ec0bc8e918
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link disguised as a game hack generator, which is a common lure for malicious redirects. The embedded URL points to known malicious infrastructure, indicating an attempt to lead the user to a compromised or malicious site. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0072

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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 http://netcdn.tw/app/1330123889/pubg-uc-logo-game-hack In PDF document text