Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be36679fa12fbffb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2021-05-10 12:03:10 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d407426ce588a09c64d62cac9651e40c SHA-1: 9a020d55375711353f597c21ed49a20417351049 SHA-256: be36679fa12fbffb9d635293c84cabb311e11993aca9c749d3e3bf4b3be74bf2
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a lure for a 'free generator / game hack' which redirects to a known malicious URL. It also displays a fake CAPTCHA prompt to trick the user into interacting with the document, likely to trigger the malicious link. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334

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/free-roblox-accounts-with-robux-that-work-2021-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_off0000343b.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x343B 24896 bytes
SHA-256: 1f484863b5d2ecb4320fbe71a6a0d739af8bccd1f2b7cf709e7de1cc295fb714
font_01_sfnt_off00006dcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DCC 19476 bytes
SHA-256: 4c7cb67921980cc467a624d7be0aa4f8f19dcdcb8d4cb789adc94de6f70366aa

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