Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 934082f1df1f3ce2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

126.3 KB Created: 2021-07-05 08:21:31 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: e34e262b845247264a5867548f272572 SHA-1: 0bb0fc3eb185b27deb876276ea4712af9d161b57 SHA-256: 934082f1df1f3ce27c9bcf23fb1aa1e36c3efa1d34213496ab0791a387425262
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, disguised as a "free generator / game hack" for PUBG. This heuristic indicates a social engineering attempt to trick the user into visiting a malicious site. The malformed stream length suggests an attempt to hide malicious content, likely an exploit or further redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0119

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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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-50-tl-game-hack In PDF document text