Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e773c99ac4524fe2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.2 KB Created: 2021-05-16 02:14:17 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 208112d8f8d6742b68c1dda9a735ee9d SHA-1: 30deec7c74eeffd5b664be437613e9fc866692cc SHA-256: e773c99ac4524fe229d9f29b119753110f05df9c7509956f19238bd95e580515
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://netcdn.xyz/app/479516143/mcpe-1.16-game-hack'. This URL is associated with a download lure, indicated by the 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic. The document body also contains references to this URL and appears to be a lure for a game hack, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0306

Heuristics 3

  • 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/mcpe-1.16-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
font_00_sfnt_off00003227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3227 25240 bytes
SHA-256: 603570b99ef9ebe8004af623f07d57cf9f24f1dfd0c820ee7efcaeaa4943847e
font_01_sfnt_off00006a2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A2C 17632 bytes
SHA-256: 4711a1543ea496a0f3d81235f335b2b9fd92f871e961f966e2047284bc2cd8dc