Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc785e946570fb6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.8 KB Created: 2021-07-20 05:31:09 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 119a918e188db74e9a41d2406f89cf67 SHA-1: bcb68f35c47e340562b427ce7177f128b779b94e SHA-256: bc785e946570fb6faa2bed7699cf12401f117bd1cef841f5df9256a1059eeac5
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains multiple links to known malicious redirectors, specifically promoting 'free generator / game hack' lures. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URLs and the heuristic firings indicate a social engineering attempt to trick users into visiting malicious sites, likely to download further malware or engage in phishing. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9900

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 http://netcdn.tw/app/479516143/minecraft-launcher-free-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://www.vadai.sg/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/how-to-get-free-minecraft-skins_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vadai.sg/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/coin-master-15-free-spin-link-of-last-5-days_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vadai.sg/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/minecraft-games-free-download_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vadai.sg/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/how-to-create-a-minecraft-server-for-free_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vadai.sg/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/minecraft-apk-free-download-016-0_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vadai.sg/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/free-coin-master-coins_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vadai.sg/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/minecraft-free-download-android_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vadai.sg/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/minecraft-fly-hack_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vadai.sg/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/how-to-get-minecraft-java-for-free_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vadai.sg/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/minecraft-free_GM479516143.pdfIn 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_off00002bee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2BEE 21752 bytes
SHA-256: 8adf7aee693501b83dca73b80bcf4f488fd3b491d9ffc2d1cdc8cff4cad550f2
font_01_sfnt_off00005b9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B9C 17872 bytes
SHA-256: d837b145e961d25029e35f3a46fce907c35d402980f977a4958a38d6468d5501