Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d61921cd86d6976d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2021-05-16 12:01:57 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 0ede39cb50476f295eb9c685526d8322 SHA-1: b245c3878d6ced259754c4b77adc7878f047c43f SHA-256: d61921cd86d6976d806cc9012f4faba4e5f3e119a942dbc2bd9be62ad75965bd
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a lure for a 'Roblox Hack Download' and a call-to-action button, directing users to a known malicious redirector URL. This indicates a phishing attempt designed to trick users into visiting malicious infrastructure, likely to download malware or engage in further scams. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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/roblox-hack-download-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_off000032c5.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x32C5 27348 bytes
SHA-256: f304504ade6c4318403b4dea6766ab302fe3a65b17945ac5c81ede661055929d
font_01_sfnt_off0000718f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x718F 18688 bytes
SHA-256: 777ecd9bf4cba19c66ac3b03e370a33bd01ed4cf882c145341853d771ac6f80e