Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95a4a2210f19285a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2021-05-15 01:42:29 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0068415d81207342765d6491d3e72339 SHA-1: 57f4accd772ed1c01b2c7e10555c5ceae2ef8543 SHA-256: 95a4a2210f19285aa791d4ccd632298f7190a26cb817993b7838e2a61d04e8ce
170 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 a known malicious URL. It also displays a fake CAPTCHA, a common social engineering tactic to trick users into executing further actions. The embedded URL is likely intended to download a second-stage payload or redirect the user to a phishing site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Fake CAPTCHA / human verification prompt high SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA
    Document displays a fake CAPTCHA or human-verification prompt — used to trick users into running commands or pressing keyboard shortcuts
  • 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/406889139/como-descargar-coin-master-hackeado-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_off000034e6.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x34E6 25528 bytes
SHA-256: 553dce5063de05f416bb93def7c72a86ccd9eb8e1d3ec082c1200953b5a36560
font_01_sfnt_off00006e9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E9A 18608 bytes
SHA-256: 3a154f5a4a32679d9f3e6ef86049faeafa20c75b70f76f1241b456008a739927