Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd773f3ccdef924f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2021-05-19 22:34:42 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 206775a5f43b43204dca93c36dcb809c SHA-1: 7a4b4d614a189ccea0cafb1aa15ab88ccf14ff8b SHA-256: dd773f3ccdef924f81ae5611ba53594832c86a75a421aabf22f85243c1281d3b
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack redirect lure, pointing to malicious infrastructure. The document body also contains a prominent call-to-action link that leads to this malicious URL. This suggests the primary goal is to trick the user into visiting a compromised site, likely to deliver a secondary payload or conduct further phishing.

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/479516143/minecraft-pe-apk-free-download-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off00003752.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3752 24952 bytes
SHA-256: 464f915237ec893216446c513f8bea0d37e8c637f0562583bf064bd73effe373
font_01_sfnt_off00006f32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F32 18788 bytes
SHA-256: 56ecf13b7fdae58d5e4afb69efa7bdb7b8d9a7a0932eb3c661bed49813117ab2

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