Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c26d7b6f27cbb6e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2021-05-30 01:13:20 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7e58e9236d4fd51c3e15ebfbeff36080 SHA-1: a7c15634f504a4a7560297509e312a58a55557b7 SHA-256: c26d7b6f27cbb6e0cd0c0ceeb80a30f1750e6eed5c3399dc23cbd35bcff9b49e
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a lure for a 'Robux Hack Generator' and embeds a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. This suggests an attempt to trick users into visiting a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0123

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/robux-hack-generator-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off00002ddf.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2DDF 25756 bytes
SHA-256: 16d356ec71ce6ced4e7d1576db4c80cd23554378deccd298c408330cf34585e8
font_01_sfnt_off000069ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69AD 2840 bytes
SHA-256: 3fb127b764b9d10f5525bc4de5ec8316de704409ccb0cf21cff3ad8a30d11676
font_02_sfnt_off0000735a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x735A 5696 bytes
SHA-256: 450e3ee45915afe13702bf1d587eb8b9ad88a8d2113419ac9f2fd116a828e139
font_03_sfnt_off0000806c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x806C 18352 bytes
SHA-256: f5433ce3dc9930d213a8e7315569ee207b9df6dd56817c97a1fb358bc14a6a3b