Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b70e558705a2e79e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.8 KB Created: 2021-05-10 12:06:17 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 2962bee2ff2aa4d42a86a5d23dc2fff2 SHA-1: 5645e3ccdd56fc12c24f399fe7e66ee9703a79dd SHA-256: b70e558705a2e79ef40c840f6ff4fbe3fa86a07ee24806381d1c02539b1226b5
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, specifically advertising a 'free generator / game hack'. The document body reinforces this lure with phrases like 'Free Spins For Coin Masters' and 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS COIN MASTER GENERATOR'. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0126

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/406889139/free-spins-for-coin-masters-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
stream_003_off000031b2.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x31B2 24356 bytes
SHA-256: 3f623efe42101ed445020d4ed90198641d38df171713610ea8454fbf96023004
font_01_sfnt_off00006991.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6991 2880 bytes
SHA-256: 10d025f04f706eb71cdda4f99784df1b9ccb52e48080e43095e0398eaef6f132
font_02_sfnt_off0000737b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x737B 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 7a686c540965cac69e1923dfbb6a78ce3f92ec60dbbf6836da21cbb58cd4d6cc