Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd95c0b9424404c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.5 KB Created: 2021-05-15 06:31:28 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 1739e7637f7ade17bab0198b0b165c69 SHA-1: cf800c36b90b1efc52ad82f9991d29a56f6d33df SHA-256: cd95c0b9424404c11bc6e5ff31036a1335f7406ad7586c3d274e5709fbb306ac
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains embedded links and text that lure users with the promise of free Robux and game hacks. The primary link directs to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest an attempt to lead the user to a malicious website, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0312

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-fun-hack-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
font_00_sfnt_off00003287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3287 25416 bytes
SHA-256: 101126e7877a288c71c9f25d3a60cd7627456f80ea2e9d6ddff73efcdce7e594
font_01_sfnt_off00006d19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D19 18412 bytes
SHA-256: 5f8acd8ad37749349105b070ed73c2c3c7a96b7e2283405d761bfe738e73485c