Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a31d4d6e7fe2d3a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2021-05-10 11:33:58 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0aef66888e7eba480f03ea87461bde20 SHA-1: 6903217086c241a97858f96d0d1b81cb81c31396 SHA-256: a31d4d6e7fe2d3a1aa4ef5c4a4c4c6b5953d35195bf03968ffd9acc732ceab36
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure for a game hack generator, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body also contains explicit calls to action and the malicious URL. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into visiting a site that likely serves a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0306

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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/431946152/how-to-get-roebucks-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
font_00_sfnt_off000032bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x32BD 24880 bytes
SHA-256: 40fdb89374bfb488f9cda4b004058f74a1870b01a6767af2c4429175c1074f42
font_01_sfnt_off000069cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69CD 18080 bytes
SHA-256: 011fab2319da63ee6edfd94b81fcdfa8ad38fc25a0e157c4a4fa77e4e52bce04

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