Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b76c8f0ff5730b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.0 KB Created: 2021-06-03 05:46:42 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 1ed10dd344d21576c52b842474e265ad SHA-1: d954689953bbfa31ece86bec7c6318ebfafbcfdb SHA-256: 9b76c8f0ff5730b2afca9f98dd7d00b273e8847188d7b800f7b5f9e591133d4c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links designed to lure users with promises of free game hacks and generators, ultimately redirecting to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded URLs and the nature of the lures strongly suggest a phishing or scam attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9646

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 https://netcdn.online/app/479516143/minecraft-login-free-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://www.digilib.uim.ac.id/repository/can-i-download-minecraft-for-free_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.digilib.uim.ac.id/repository/how-to-earn-robux-for-free-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilib.uim.ac.id/repository/robux-generators-that-actually-work_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilib.uim.ac.id/repository/free-robIn PDF document text