Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d00151cb89b9bffe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2021-05-25 08:00:34 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: e1bf52b865b827d608281ad8920ea09a SHA-1: 8ba71615fc80472c9c6de63123a3bc08acdf06e9 SHA-256: d00151cb89b9bffe40d67f8ad12dc41314084993789689c70f82e22d40586627
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains multiple embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically advertising a "free Robux generator" or "game hack". The document body and heuristics indicate a lure to a malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious links suggests an attempt to lead the user to a phishing or malware download site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0718

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-no-verification-no-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
font_00_sfnt_off00002de8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2DE8 25376 bytes
SHA-256: 5d51bbcd12420fd3389b05cf4f32c59e2142ea4db2c1dee248ecc6110a30ce18
font_01_sfnt_off000068d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68D7 18892 bytes
SHA-256: 71091a6cc5ee2467f7d55b23aad8276d14a961c51a29e0f15aa3bcc69cbd56da