Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b03cea1988d036fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2021-05-17 19:00:12 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 526b5b2b30da62aa2a2c54fbc675e167 SHA-1: 3d5893c2e9bed1ce99dd741d66f9cbff6909c266 SHA-256: b03cea1988d036faf5ae8e189f436afe05fae62cd0734118990b9de8bfd4d27f
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious domain, masquerading as a Roblox generator. This lure is designed to trick users into visiting a potentially harmful site. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the lure suggest an attempt to lead the user to a malicious resource, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334

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 https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/roblox-com-free-robux-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
stream_003_off00003212.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3212 30180 bytes
SHA-256: 6b2f72f1116aea8ec85f3187a51eadd8e4547221326980a7acb593f64f2e5736
font_01_sfnt_off000076d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76D5 18348 bytes
SHA-256: c296ce3e2e2a101d3e2a91d968c24b195b6c9a3a72cf9c6f74fe8dc429b2d5e3