Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98d830d1adea84cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2021-07-20 13:51:14 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e4abb0233c51574b6ceef469f9905d7f SHA-1: 150039784a710ecb99f909d0a89a93362e0589dd SHA-256: 98d830d1adea84ccd4e90a2c6325247220b13545619d5f0ad2dd978bb1455274
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains multiple links to known malicious redirectors, disguised as "free generator / game hack" lures. The document body explicitly mentions "Daily Free Spins For Coin Master" and "CLICK HERE TO ACCESS COIN MASTER GENERATOR", indicating a social engineering tactic to trick users into clicking the malicious links. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://netcdn.tw/app/406889139/daily-free-spins-for-coin-master-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://kfz-werkstatt-etp.de/images/free-robux-websites-that-actually-work-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfz-werkstatt-etp.de/images/how-to-get-verified-on-tiktok-for-free-2021_GM835599320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfz-werkstatt-etp.de/images/claim-free-spins-coin-master_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfz-werkstatt-etp.de/images/roblox-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfz-werkstatt-etp.de/images/minecraft-dungeons-free_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfz-werkstatt-etp.de/images/robloxmatchcom-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfz-werkstatt-etp.de/images/free-roblox-accounts-with-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfz-werkstatt-etp.de/images/coin-master-daily-free-spins-link-app_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfz-werkstatt-etp.de/images/how-to-buy-robux-for-free_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfz-werkstatt-etp.de/images/free-robux-today_GM431946152.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
stream_002_off00002ca0.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2CA0 23900 bytes
SHA-256: 050449b1e92a204f89cbd8fdae3001e0cda1b8e5ea7c221b8ecf89aff8f5f19a
font_01_sfnt_off000062fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62FA 18308 bytes
SHA-256: b750d5a8b44caccc122b2ff8294eb9307e18e87e3916697a2a7f0c063c77f291