Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a75bcbeb4a0a47e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2021-05-11 23:00:51 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8a924f723bb1c40181e875b0f2798d4c SHA-1: 68f482bfa2595586748e10c1263a0d901fb846ca SHA-256: a75bcbeb4a0a47e3bc85c7604fcdd811af2450b7795bef9d5f58562c515661b7
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 malicious infrastructure. The document body and embedded artifacts suggest a lure for a "free Robux generator" which likely employs a fake CAPTCHA to trick users into executing further malicious actions or downloading additional payloads. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the lure strongly indicate a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0128

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/431946152/how-to-get-free-robux-easy-hack-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000032f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x32F3 26868 bytes
SHA-256: 669f4d95f66a213b2227b1d507e89629b03421f57c704160d93d2596047fcf2b
font_01_sfnt_off00006e01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E01 3656 bytes
SHA-256: 63a179d8a9645bea05c6d53b1776faf4e4a7281930de6cf484e639846bec2e20
font_02_sfnt_off00007abb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ABB 18860 bytes
SHA-256: ae4481784f2b59baf7f887bcc8933de4398304efe668e0a39e1c63b4066a7356

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