Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d333eb6bcbeda929…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.2 KB Created: 2021-05-14 06:10:51 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 61264155005abfdbe81f6921d48b6770 SHA-1: 6ce8110d539c2233374fe8bf534f4eeede888275 SHA-256: d333eb6bcbeda92977f785d990441e1290ffd3b8164d5e4688f79e148a8cbaf9
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, disguised as a "free generator / game hack". The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains similar lures and URLs. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the lures strongly suggest an attempt to trick the user into navigating to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0451

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/406889139/free-spin-gratis-coin-master-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://istanagloves.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/how-do-you-get-free-robux-on-roblox_GM431946152.pdfIn 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_off0000331e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x331E 23852 bytes
SHA-256: 841e0c8226117394d67f9d039a459425747883281a9e3d35d3d98b070b1b120f
font_01_sfnt_off00006929.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6929 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 23dcadeb48e0d526df43250cfc669ee55e9a856b7439bddbcf6542ec0d6b5e03