Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c51d92644d680d11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.1 KB Created: 2021-05-11 19:31:10 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 5e396834c4c93695d52f3c44e11cd88c SHA-1: c45e27de85f762068293b34493881809087f7c9d SHA-256: c51d92644d680d1152e962c9003e9a2cea5a8234f0a57bd62529341bd73cd538
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains embedded links and text that lure the user with the promise of free Robux and a download button. These links redirect to known malicious infrastructure, indicating an attempt to lead the user to a potentially harmful site. The document's content and heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or scam attempt.

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/free-robux-hack-no-human-verification-or-survey-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_off000034d3.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x34D3 25544 bytes
SHA-256: 9aecd14b37742eda354e4ba0708f209c7e08fb97593b073b239e3d68d68012dd
font_01_sfnt_off000070c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70C7 19324 bytes
SHA-256: 661bab6f3a048473b92ec1de100f4f76f72057f0f8e039014173720ccd048479