Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a80be1913358dbe2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2021-05-17 20:12:01 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: c3c05cd3849048e2a3570a7a2d972d41 SHA-1: 0b196fd28cdb4be347f77e5f0ab45fb11532e850 SHA-256: a80be1913358dbe21686f1dc31bb64628a3376f3dba48f1638cb82acae1a2cd5
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious. It uses brand-impersonation credential phishing. The file routes users through malicious redirector infrastructure and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/how-to-get-free-robux-without-verification-2021-game-hack.
  • 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 https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/how-to-get-free-robux-without-verification-2021-game-hack PDF link annotation
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off00003515.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3515 24524 bytes
SHA-256: 9217ffe59fd42bf640f7d8df8118536d8466f2205c0451cab8471df469cd01e0
font_01_sfnt_off00006d89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D89 19528 bytes
SHA-256: 1b346556c7df455cb9a54b8f1a6e3f1a0bfffa2d9228fa0640c35d2bdb9db684

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