Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dadab16fd8c2aef4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 07:05:59 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2cd008214d9017f29ec78b5edd7ebf7d SHA-1: cd90d69c533281eedf75ba2841c96a5178c071ce SHA-256: dadab16fd8c2aef4df64175e03a74b29e7ce187448fa6a21c46a0749ed740bf2
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically advertising a 'free generator / game hack' for PUBG. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt designed to lure users to a potentially harmful website. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0216

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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 http://netcdn.tw/app/1330123889/pubg-uc-olx-game-hack In PDF document text