Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 977f470d0ee044f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.5 KB Created: 2021-07-20 00:01:53 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5e57d324597d1e9c3006da396d15c573 SHA-1: b6ea57dc0931a0ead114b6ec4b75a1ea9fb2e2a8 SHA-256: 977f470d0ee044f33a75080b1dc99c68ca44758d26228779af3789820ee7e4a5
82 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a high-confidence heuristic firing for a 'game hack' lure, directing users to a suspicious URL. The document body and embedded links also point to various 'free generator' or 'hack' lures, indicating a social engineering tactic to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to exploit user interest in free in-game items or cheats, likely leading to a phishing or malware download page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9900

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to a 'free generator / game hack' redirector high 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.
  • 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
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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/835599320/how-to-get-free-tiktok-coins-game-hack PDF link annotation
    • http://elearningmts01sgs.sch.id/__statics/gudangsoal/files/free-coin-master-links_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elearningmts01sgs.sch.id/__statics/gudangsoal/files/hack-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elearningmts01sgs.sch.id/__statics/gudangsoal/files/free-robux-games-that-actually-work_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elearningmts01sgs.sch.id/__statics/gudangsoal/files/free-robux-no-scam_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elearningmts01sgs.sch.id/__statics/gudangsoal/files/freer-tiktok_GM835599320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elearningmts01sgs.sch.id/__statics/gudangsoal/files/minecraft-free-online_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elearningmts01sgs.sch.id/__statics/gudangsoal/files/how-to-get-free-coins-on-coin-master_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elearningmts01sgs.sch.id/__statics/gudangsoal/files/free-robux-no-verification-2021-ios_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elearningmts01sgs.sch.id/__statics/gudangsoal/files/how-to-play-minecraft-for-free_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elearningmts01sgs.sch.id/__statics/gudangsoal/files/minecraft-realms-free_GM479516143.pdfIn 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
font_00_sfnt_off00002c5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2C5A 22612 bytes
SHA-256: aec7f8db403820fda9d38aac05e5896d074a0d0130facfdde2c6d5c1fe80da96
font_01_sfnt_off00005ef7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EF7 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 5e08b925a0f8fe2d80e54c1999b1c3763f905cccf1acde0f5739739445e42325