Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db42aa52a7a56908…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 09:16:11 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 147bf0699e804e75f70e0c3a2b9603b3 SHA-1: aa0ab6079d5b062d8dfb41fffd8331974493f6a3 SHA-256: db42aa52a7a5690833d98e267374173ce7988c75d44fe6a66b54a3e5e88f766e
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are structured as SEO-optimized PDF links, suggesting a link farm. The document body and embedded URLs promote free in-game currency and hacks for popular games, indicating a social engineering lure. The presence of 'cmd_GM431946152.pdf' in the document text suggests an attempt to disguise a command execution or a malicious link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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 http://netcdn.tw/app/431946152/games-that-give-free-robux-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/break-free-by-ariana-grande-roblox-id_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/how-to-hack-in-jailbreak-roblox-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/can-you-get-hacked-on-roblox-when-giving-dis_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/roblox-free-1-million-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/how-to-get-free-robux-2021-easy_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/unicorn-how-to-get-free-robux-youtube_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/hack-downlad-roblox_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/coin-master-free-spin-link-today-2021_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/free-coin-master-spins-2021_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/how-to-hack-roblox-passwords-with-cmd_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/bloxland-earn-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/how-to-get-free-robux-2021-no-human-verification_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/how-to-get-minecraft-for-free-on-xbox_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/get-free-robux-generator_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/hack-roblox-sans-verification-humaine_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/roblox-verification_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/coin-master-free-spins-link-today-ios_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/minecraft-xbox-360-free-download-code_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/coin-master-daily-free-spins-link-app_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/roblox-hacks-for-free-robux-2021-febuary_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dmgroupksa.com/uploaded_fileIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • 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_off000031bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x31BB 22656 bytes
SHA-256: a21adafd2cd924cfee1cc836555cbd5583e08b1f62959f3ee65219eef3c49173
font_01_sfnt_off00006479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6479 19480 bytes
SHA-256: a134365561edbdff80a1502dd404e307ea3328ecb7bf3d1da0fbfee9abe6ee6f